{"title":"ASR-based dictation practice for second language pronunciation improvement","authors":"Shannon McCrocklin","doi":"10.1075/JSLP.16034.MCC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JSLP.16034.MCC","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In pronunciation learning, there is a need for resources and tools that help students monitor their speech or\u0000 provide feedback on errors. While researchers have seen ASR-based technologies as potential tools, little attention\u0000 has been paid to dictation programs, which have been criticized for low levels of recognition, but offer advantages such as\u0000 accessibility and flexibility. This study examines two groups of learners in a pronunciation workshop: CONV, which had fully\u0000 face-to-face instruction, and HYBRID, which had half of the instruction face-to-face and half using the computer, practicing\u0000 production using a dictation program, Windows Speech Recognition. Results show that both groups improved from pre- to post-test\u0000 and that there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups. Results indicate that dictation programs may\u0000 be useful as a complement to face-to-face pronunciation teaching, especially if in-class time for pronunciation teaching is\u0000 limited.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46908056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching-oriented research","authors":"John M. Levis","doi":"10.1075/JSLP.18043.LEV","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JSLP.18043.LEV","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper examines some of the factors that make for a good teaching-oriented paper, in which research and\u0000 practice are most clearly connected. Such papers have clear research questions, explicit and systematic approaches to teaching and\u0000 learning for experimental and control groups, improvement measured by pre and posttests, and well-developed teaching implications.\u0000 Various papers from different journals are used to illustrate the characteristics of successful teaching-oriented papers.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44221719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bruce L. Smith, Eric M. Johnson, Rachel Hayes-Harb
{"title":"ESL learners’ intra-speaker variability in producing American English tense and lax vowels","authors":"Bruce L. Smith, Eric M. Johnson, Rachel Hayes-Harb","doi":"10.1075/JSLP.15050.SMI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JSLP.15050.SMI","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Nonnative (L2) English learners are often assumed to exhibit greater speech production variability than native\u0000 (L1) speakers; however, support for this assumption is primarily limited to secondary observations rather than having been the\u0000 specific focus of empirical investigations. The present study examined intra-speaker variability associated with L2 English\u0000 learners’ tense and lax vowel productions to determine whether they showed comparable or greater intra-speaker variability than\u0000 native English speakers. First and second formants of three tense/lax vowel pairs were measured, and Coefficient of Variation was\u0000 calculated for 10 native speakers of American English and 30 nonnative speakers. The L2 speakers’ vowel formants were found to be\u0000 native-like approximately half of the time. Whether their formants were native-like or not, however, they seldom showed greater\u0000 intra-speaker variability than the L1 speakers.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42263947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rachel’s English","authors":"Meichan Huang","doi":"10.1075/JSLP.18041.HUA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JSLP.18041.HUA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45607139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"mmmEnglish","authors":"Katsuya Yokomoto","doi":"10.1075/jslp.18040.yok","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.18040.yok","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43427253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The accommodation of intelligible segmental pronunciation","authors":"G. O’Neal","doi":"10.1075/JSLP.17002.ONE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JSLP.17002.ONE","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This qualitative and quantitative study applies conversation analytic methodology to the examination of mutual\u0000 intelligibility, and then quantifies the segmental repairs and segmental adjustments that were required to maintain\u0000 intelligibility in English as a Lingua Franca interactions among students at a Japanese university. In the qualitative portion,\u0000 sequential analysis was used to ascertain the segmental repairs that were utilized to maintain mutual intelligibility and to\u0000 identify the pronunciations that interactants oriented to as unintelligible and intelligible, which can then be compared to\u0000 determine the segmental adjustments that changed an unintelligible pronunciation into an intelligible one. In the quantitative\u0000 portion, the segmental repairs and the segmental adjustments were quantified in order to assess which kinds of segmental repairs\u0000 and segmental adjustments are most frequent. This study concludes that reactive repair is the most frequent segmental repair, and\u0000 modification is the most frequent segmental adjustment.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43065352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tanja Kocjancic Antolík, C. Pillot-Loiseau, Takeki Kamiyama
{"title":"The effectiveness of real-time ultrasound visual feedback on tongue movements in L2 pronunciation\u0000 training","authors":"Tanja Kocjancic Antolík, C. Pillot-Loiseau, Takeki Kamiyama","doi":"10.1075/JSLP.16022.ANT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JSLP.16022.ANT","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The purpose of this study was to test the usability of ultrasound as a visual feedback tool in L2 pronunciation\u0000 training. Six Japanese-speaking learners, aged 28–33 years, participating in a course in French phonetics for L2 learners, took\u0000 part in the study. Four of them received three individual 45-minute lessons of ultrasound pronunciation training. The other two\u0000 participants did not. Articulatory and acoustic data of French isolated /y/ and /u/ and Japanese [ɯ] were recorded before and\u0000 after the ultrasound training, as well as two months later for the learners receiving the training. The analysis of the\u0000 articulatory data revealed that three speakers with ultrasound feedback improved in the production of the French vowels, the\u0000 contrast between them, as well as the contrast between the two French vowels and the Japanese [ɯ], suggesting that ultrasound may\u0000 be a useful tool in second language pronunciation learning.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48748644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}