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Google Translate as a tool for self-directed language learning
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van Lieshout, Catharina; Cardoso, Walcir. - : University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2022. : Center for Language & Technology, 2022. : (co-sponsored by Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, University of Texas at Austin), 2022
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Preliminary investigations for the development of a virtual reality-based English-language communication program: Using the Delphi method
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In: PLoS One (2022)
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Online Translators: Can They Help English Learners improve their pronunciation?
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The literature reports a number of limitations that affect the teaching and learning of foreign languages, including a lack of teacher preparedness (Hu, 2005) and insufficient time for practice (Life, 2011). To mitigate these challenges, we proposed a self-directed learning (SDL) environment assisted by a combination of text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies, as found in Microsoft Translator (MT), to examine whether this translation tool and its built-in speech features can promote the acquisition in pronunciation of English regular past tense -ed in a self-directed manner. This study followed a pretest/posttest research design in which participants received autonomous but teacher-assisted TTS- and ASR-based treatment to learn about the pronunciation of English past -ed allomorphy: this suffix can be pronounced as play/d/, visit/ɪd/ and walk/t/, depending on the preceding phonological environment. We compared 29 participants’ performance in past -ed allomorphy by assessing their phonological development in terms of phonological awareness, phonemic discrimination, and oral production, as per Celce-Murcia et al.’s (2010) framework for pronunciation instruction. The t-test results showed that there were significant improvements in participants’ phonological awareness and oral production of English past -ed allomorphy. For the phonemic discrimination tests, the results were inconclusive: the participants only improved in recognizing the /t/ allomorph. These findings highlight the affordances of MT and its speech capabilities regarding its pedagogical use for improving second language learners’ pronunciation.
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URL: https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/988939/ https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/988939/1/He_MA_F2021.pdf
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Exploring Brazilian English learners’ views and experiences of multilevel EFL classes
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Activate space rats! Fluency development in a mobile game-assisted environment
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Grimshaw, Jennica; Cardoso, Walcir. - : University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2018. : Michigan State University Center for Language Education and Research, 2018
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VARIATION AND OPTIMALITY THEORY: REGRESSIVE ASSIMILATION IN VIMEU PICARD
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In: Revista da ABRALIN; v. 8, n. 2 (2009): Julho a Dezembro ; 0102-7158 ; 1678-1805 ; 10.25189/rabl.v8i2 (2017)
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Apresentação
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In: Organon; v. 30, n. 58 (2015): Aquisição fonético-fonológica de Segunda Língua/Língua Estrangeira ; 2238-8915 ; 0102-6267 (2015)
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LONGITUDINAL CHANGES IN THE USE OF PARATONES IN L2 ENGLISH SPEECH BY MANDARIN SPEAKERS
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In: Organon; v. 30, n. 58 (2015): Aquisição fonético-fonológica de Segunda Língua/Língua Estrangeira ; 2238-8915 ; 0102-6267 (2015)
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Interview with Ocke-Schwen Bohn
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In: Organon; v. 30, n. 58 (2015): Aquisição fonético-fonológica de Segunda Língua/Língua Estrangeira ; 2238-8915 ; 0102-6267 (2015)
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Vernacular universals and language contacts: Evidence from varieties of English and beyond
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In: Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics; Vol. 12 No. 2 (2009) ; Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée; Vol. 12 No. 2 (2009) ; 1920-1818 ; 1481-868X (2009)
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