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Teaching Listening For Prominence In Combination With Reading To Help Students Determine New Information, Margaret Genereux
Teaching Listening For Prominence In Combination With Reading To Help Students Determine New Information, Margaret Genereux
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to assess whether teaching adult English Language Learners (ELLs) to listen for new information spoken with prominence on the target new information increased their ability to make inferences about meaning. Data collected included: a pre and post-test to assess students’ learning during the intervention; an uptake sheet to solicit students’ self-perception of their learning about pronunciation and placement of new information; and a Likert scale to elicit participants’ self-assessment of their ability to identify and use prominence. While results of the post-test on selecting the correct inference were inconclusive, quantitative and qualitative data indicated …
How Movie Dubbing Can Help Native Chinese Speakers’ English Pronunciation, Irene Lin Florente
How Movie Dubbing Can Help Native Chinese Speakers’ English Pronunciation, Irene Lin Florente
School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to determine if the use of English movie scripts and movie dubbing activities can help native Chinese speakers improve their awareness of prosodic features in English, specifically, sentence stress. The literature review explores Chinese and English prosody, movie dubbing and ideal pronunciation standards. The qualitative research paradigm was implemented to explore the hypothesis that hearing and mimicking the natural speech patterns of native speakers can help native Chinese speakers improve their awareness of sentence stress in English. After three cycles of language instruction and language discrimination activities, seven students were chosen for a case …