The Effects of Pronunciation Practice with Animated Materials Focusing on English Prosody

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概要

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• It has often been suggested that prosody, encompassing rhythm, accent and intonation, contributes greatly to the production of natural-sounding English and furthermore, that these suprasegmental elements play an important role in successful communication. Japanese EFL learners, influenced by the mora-timed rhythm of their mother tongue, tend to use Japanese rhythmic patterns when they speak English. This study attempts to demonstrate how the authors' original animated Web materials focusing on English rhythm enabled students to improve their English pronunciation. From our experiment, carried out once a week for five weeks in a CALL classroom, some positive effects of rhythmic pronunciation practice were found on the learners' pronunciation. Clear correlations among the speech duration, pitch ranges, and naturalness of the English produced by Japanese EFL learners were also found.

著者

• Yamane Shigeru

  Kansai University

• Ueda Makoto

  Aichi Sangyo University

• SONOBE Hideyuki

  Aichi Sangyo University

関連論文

• The Effects of Pauses on the Listening Process of Japanese EFL Learners
• The Effects of Pronunciation Practice with Animated Materials Focusing on English Prosody

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