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Automatic pronunciation assessment is the use of speech recognition to verify the correctness of pronounced speech, [1] [2] as distinguished from manual assessment by an instructor or proctor. [3] Also called speech verification, pronunciation evaluation, and pronunciation scoring, the main application of this technology is computer-aided ...
The Lingua Franca Core ( LFC) is a selection of pronunciation features of the English language recommended as a basis in teaching of English as a lingua franca. It was proposed by linguist Jennifer Jenkins in her 2000 book The Phonology of English as an International Language. [1] Jenkins derived the LFC from features found to be crucial in non ...
Donna M. Brinton. Donna Mary Brinton (born July 11, 1948 in Los Angeles County, California) [1] is an American applied linguist, author, and global educational consultant on second language education. She is the daughter of Mary Mies Brinton and Robert K. Brinton and the sister of epidemiologist Louise A. Brinton and linguist Laurel J. Brinton .
The Articulatory approach is an alternative to the imitative-intuitive and analytic-linguistic approaches, [1] both of which involve the teacher providing a model for her students to imitate. The model might be her own voice or a recording. In the articulatory approach, the students are not asked to match a model but instead to experiment with ...
Ancient Greek in Italy is always [citation needed] taught in the Erasmian pronunciation. However, Italian speakers find it hard to reproduce the pitch-based Ancient Greek accent accurately so the circumflex and acute accents are not distinguished. Poetry is read using metric conventions that stress the long syllables.
Phonetician. Notable work. English Phonetics and Phonology; English Pronouncing Dictionary, eds. 15–18. Website. peterroach .net. Peter John Roach (born 30 June 1943) is a British retired phonetician. He taught at the Universities of Leeds and Reading, and is best known for his work on the pronunciation of British English. [1]
Silent Way. The Silent Way is a language-teaching approach created by Caleb Gattegno that makes extensive use of silence as a teaching method. Gattegno introduced the method in 1963, in his book Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools: The Silent Way. [1] Gattegno was critical of mainstream language education at the time, and he based the method ...
Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing to beginners. To use phonics is to teach the relationship between the sounds of the spoken language ( phonemes ), and the letters ( graphemes) or groups of letters or syllables of the written language. Phonics is also known as the alphabetic principle or the alphabetic code. [1]