Vowel Perception and Transcription Trainer for Learners of English as a Foreign Language

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI:10.2478/rela-2019-0014

Šárka Šimáčková, Václav Jonáš Podlipský

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Abstract

Abstract We use the freely available program Praat to create a vowel-training application for learners of English familiar with IPA transcription. The application is easy to operate, allowing users to change the training difficulty, providing the listeners with immediate feedback, and adapting to their performance during a training session. To evaluate the effectiveness of the Trainer, performance of 59 Czech learners during a single training session and across multiple sessions was tracked. Results showed improvement both between sessions and within sessions. In the final training session, vowel identification accuracy showed considerable resistance to gradual addition of increasing levels of noise. Testing the trainer with additional 52 learners showed significantly higher error-rates for low-frequency words and supported the importance of top-down lexical effect in vowel identification.

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对外英语学习者的元音感知与转录训练

摘要我们使用免费提供的程序Praat为熟悉IPA转录的英语学习者创建了一个元音训练应用程序。该应用程序易于操作，允许用户更改训练难度，为听众提供即时反馈，并适应他们在训练课程中的表现。为了评估培训师的有效性，跟踪了59名捷克学习者在一次培训和多次培训中的表现。结果显示，两个疗程之间和疗程内都有所改善。在最后一次训练中，元音识别的准确性对逐渐增加的噪音水平表现出相当大的抵抗力。对另外52名学习者进行的培训显示，低频词的错误率明显更高，并支持自上而下的词汇效应在元音识别中的重要性。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.