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Experimenting to Improve Students’ Pronunciation #687

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.