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Over a semester, students attending a university in Japan undertook several different approaches to drilling effective pronunciation and identification of sounds, specifically the sounds present in English and not Japanese. This led to a direct increase in the ability of students to recognize the differences between Japanese vowel sounds and English vowel sounds. This presentation looks at the outcomes of this study and presents ways to implement effective pronunciation drills in your classroom.