PRONUNCIATION IN EFL CALL

• Authors: Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

State of the art in pronunciation-oriented EFL CALL is reviewed from the pedagogical perspective. Discussion touches upon CALL flexibility, coverage, declarative vs. procedural knowledge, L1-sensitivity, multimedia employment and automatic speech recognition (ASR). Six different CALL programs are briefly evaluated from these points of view: Fluency, Pronunciation Power, Connected Speech, Better Accent, ISLE and Tell Me More. Future promises and challenges in speech-enabled EFL CALL are outlined, such as speech synthesis, multimodality in man-machine communication and (speech-tospeech) machine translation.

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1

Contributors

author

Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland