Proposal presentation v2 1020107

Presenter: Sze-Chu Liu

Instructor: Dr. Pi-Ying Teresa Hsu

Date: January 7, 2013

Outline

Introduction

Literature Review

Methodology

Proposal Presentation 2

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

Purposes of the Study

Research Question

Definition of the Terms


Background of the StudyA report recently released shows that the

proficiency of English of Taiwan adults is ranked 30 and categorized into “intermediate-low level”, falling behind neighboring countries such as Japan and Korea.

(Education First, 2012)


Purpose of the StudyThe purpose of this study is to evaluate

the effectiveness of computer-assisted pronunciation training in English for vocational college students in Taiwan, evaluating the improvement of pronunciation quality.


Research QuestionAre computer-assisted pronunciation

training tools effective in improving pronunciation quality for vocational college students?


Definition of the TermsCAPT = Computer Assisted Pronunciation

Training

CALL = Computer Assisted Language Learning


Literature ReviewAn important tenet of structural

linguistics was that the primary medium of language is oral: Speech is language.

(Richards & Rodgers, 2001:p.55)


Literature Review The areas where CALL-based pedagogy outpaces

conventional materials are in the provision of: individual plans

anywhere / anytime instruction

patient tutoring

a private space to make mistakes

immediate, individualized instruction

detailed records of achievement

self-paced learning.

(Nunan, 2011:p.216)


Literature ReviewNeri et al. (2008) A CAPT system is used to teach a group of 11-year-old

native Italian children in English as a foreign language.

The improvement made by experimental group and control group was comparable.

The time used by experimental group is half of control group.

Teaching with CAPT helped experimental group improve their pronunciation of difficult and unknownwords significantly.


Literature ReviewHardison (2004) A CAPT tool with automatic feedback of the speaker’s

intonation in form of filtered oscillograms on computer screen is used.

Experimental results revealed significant effects of computer-assisted training in the acquisition of second laguage prosody and generalization to segmental accuracy and novel sentences.

A real-time visual display received positive comments from participants.


METHODOLOGY

Participants

Research Design

Instruments

Procedures

Pilot Study

Statistical AnalysisProposal Presentation 12

ParticipantsExperimental

GroupControl Group

ParticipantsSecond-year students in a vocational

university

Numbers 45 45

Sampling

Ranked and listed according to

their averaged scores of first-year

General English courses

Systematic sample with a random

start combined with stratification

from the middle 60%Proposal Presentation 13

Research Design


Instruments

MyET


Procedures


Pre-testTraining

ProcedurePost-test

Training Procedure


Experimental

GroupControl Group

Teacher Taught by the same teacher

Syllabus Elementary level oral practice

Period One session per week for 12 weeks

Sampling

Blended

teaching with

CAPT

40 minutes

teach-led

40 minutes

with CAPT

Traditional

teaching

80 minutes per

session

Rating Procedure

Sentence#1

Sentence #2

Sentence #50

S2S1 S90

Audio file #1

Audio file #2

Audio file #50

The pronunciation quality of each utterance is scored on a 100-point scale.

Rating Procedure


Pilot StudyTwo small groups of students with similar

demographic background will be studied in the pilot study.


Statistical AnalysisCronbach alpha test On the scores given by three raters and MyET

To test the reliability of measurements

ANOVA (F-test) On the pretest and posttest scores

To examine the difference of teaching effectiveness between experimental groups and control groups


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