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Christina Garcia; Dan Nickolai; Lillian Jones – CALICO Journal, 2020
This paper presents a 15-week classroom study measuring the student outcomes of instructor-led pronunciation lessons versus entirely ASR-based pronunciation training. Seventy-six second-semester Spanish language learners were divided into two groups, one experimental (n=44) and one control (n=32). Over the course of six modules, both groups…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Spanish, Second Language Instruction
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Yoon, Su-Youn; Pierce, Lisa; Huensch, Amanda; Juul, Eric; Perkins, Samantha; Sproat, Richard; Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark – CALICO Journal, 2009
This work reports on the construction of a rated database of spontaneous speech produced by second language (L2) learners of English. Spontaneous speech was collected from 28 L2 speakers representing six language backgrounds and five different proficiency levels. Speech was elicited using formats similar to that of the TOEFL iBT and the Speaking…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Databases, English (Second Language), Computational Linguistics