Sarah Holland
Toyo University
Sarah J. Holland, MA Ed.D (Temple University, Japan) is an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Literature, Toyo University, Japan. Her research interests, in addition to teaching English pronunciation, include an ecological approach to teaching, task based learning and recently, CLIL.
Sessions
Experimenting to Improve Students’ Pronunciation
Our collaborative experimental study attempts to demonstrate the relative effectiveness of two activities, role-play and a haptic technique, to improve aspects of students’ English pronunciation. The participants were 50 first-year Japanese university students in two intact classes. The students used Praat speech analysis software to produce visualizations of their recorded speech, both before and after treatment. The methods and data analysis will be explained, the haptic technique demonstrated and the surprising results presented.