The Acquisition of Prosodic Features of Speech Using a Speech Visualizer.

James, E. F.

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The Acquisition of Prosodic Features of Speech Using a Speech Visualizer

James, E. F.

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 14, 3, 227-43, Aug 76

A speech visualizer which provides a student with an immediate reinforcement in the form of a visual "feedback" of his own performance is vastly superior to other methods of teaching prosodic elements of speech in a second language, according to experiments carried out at the University of Toronto. (CFM)

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, French, Language Instruction, Language Rhythm, Pronunciation Instruction, Reinforcement, Speech Skills, Suprasegmentals, Teaching Methods

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