Abstract
This report describes a systematic procedure designed to give students pronunciation feedback on suprasegmental features of English in spontaneous production (rather than students' pronunciation during a read-aloud task). The procedure was developed to find out if written feedback (given frequently enough) could impact students' spontaneous production of suprasegmentals. Pronunciation feedback was given to the treatment group by marking transcripts of spontaneous speech with written symbols. Both the treatment group and the control group received form-focused pronunciation instruction. After 14 weeks, there was no significant difference between the groups, but there was a statistically significant improvement in students' comprehensibility overall (regardless of the feedback condition). Students were also surveyed to determine if either group perceived a greater benefit from the pronunciation instruction or if either group perceived a greater improvement in pronunciation. Surveys revealed a meaningful correlation between the group that received the treatment and the group that found the pronunciation instruction to be beneficial.
Degree
MA
College and Department
Humanities; Linguistics and English Language
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Stephens, Chirstin, "The Effectiveness of Using Written Feedback to Improve Adult ESL Learners' Spontaneous Pronunciation of English Suprasegmentals" (2016). Theses and Dissertations. 6062.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6062
Date Submitted
2016-06-01
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd8609
Keywords
pronunciation feedback procedure, suprasegmentals, written feedback
Language
english