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View article: The Differential Impact of Data Collection Methods and Language Background on English Tone Choice Patterns
The Differential Impact of Data Collection Methods and Language Background on English Tone Choice Patterns Open
This study examines the impact of spoken data collection techniques and language background on falling, level, and rising tones. Elicited data from a Discourse Completion Task (DCT), structured speech from a collaborative oral assessment t…
View article: Artificial Intelligence‐Generated Feedback for Second Language Intelligibility: An Exploratory Intervention Study on Effects and Perceptions
Artificial Intelligence‐Generated Feedback for Second Language Intelligibility: An Exploratory Intervention Study on Effects and Perceptions Open
This study investigated the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and signal detection processes to generate meaningful visual and ChatGPT‐like narrative feedback on second language (L2) English intelligibility. To test the effects an…
View article: FLUENCY BENCHMARKS AND IMPACTS OF PRACTICE WITH INSTANTANEOUS ASSESSMENT ON INTERNATIONAL TEACHING ASSISTANTS’ SPEECH RATE AND PAUSE UNITS
FLUENCY BENCHMARKS AND IMPACTS OF PRACTICE WITH INSTANTANEOUS ASSESSMENT ON INTERNATIONAL TEACHING ASSISTANTS’ SPEECH RATE AND PAUSE UNITS Open
This paper reports on the development of academic-specific L2 target benchmarks and introduces a web-based instantaneous assessment tool to provide second language (L2) English learners with quantitative results of their uttera…
View article: Mobile-Assisted Pronunciation Training With Adult Esol Learners: Background, Acceptance, Effort, and Accuracy
Mobile-Assisted Pronunciation Training With Adult Esol Learners: Background, Acceptance, Effort, and Accuracy Open
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View article: Improving Mispronunciation Detection with Wav2vec2-based Momentum Pseudo-Labeling for Accentedness and Intelligibility Assessment
Improving Mispronunciation Detection with Wav2vec2-based Momentum Pseudo-Labeling for Accentedness and Intelligibility Assessment Open
Current leading mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD) systems achieve promising performance via end-to-end phoneme recognition. One challenge of such end-to-end solutions is the scarcity of human-annotated phonemes on natural L2 s…
View article: Mobile-Assisted Prosody Training for Limited English Proficiency: Learner Background and Speech Learning Pattern
Mobile-Assisted Prosody Training for Limited English Proficiency: Learner Background and Speech Learning Pattern Open
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View article: INTONATION AND WORD STRESS IN GEORGIAN EFL LEARNERS’ UTTERANCES: DOES PRAAT TRAINING HELP?
INTONATION AND WORD STRESS IN GEORGIAN EFL LEARNERS’ UTTERANCES: DOES PRAAT TRAINING HELP? Open
For EFL speakers, prosodic features such as intonation and word stress contribute greatly to the comprehensibility of an utterance (Derwing & Rossiter, 2003;Zielinski, 2008).Yet, many of the problems learners face in being understood may b…