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Improving English speaking with parsing training

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K16799
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionThe University of Aizu

Principal Investigator

Heo Younghyon  会津大学, コンピュータ理工学部, 准教授 (10631476)

Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
KeywordsShadowing / English Prosody / English prosody / L2 speaking / English speaking / parsing / intonation
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we developed a particular type of shadowing technique what we call PIST (Pause, Intonation and Stress pattern Training). It is an intensive and repeated shadowing training using both learners’ phonological and visuo-spatial working memory. It is designed to develop the L2 prosodic awareness in production and eventually help learners build up prosodic competence in English. It is similar to the traditional English shadowing in that learners orally reproduce target sentences after listening to model L2 sentence production but different in that prosodic components of target sentences are visibly marked/highlighted and presented to learners. The PIST training was experimented and implemented in English listening and speaking classes.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2017 2016 2015

All Presentation (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results)

  • [Presentation] Reintroducing the English Prosody to Japanese EFL Learners through Shadowing2017

    • Author(s)
      Younghyon Heo, Emiko Kaneko and Ahrong Lee
    • Organizer
      2017 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Developing L2 Prosodic Awareness: Shadowing with Visuals (Can your brain adjust to the L2 rhythmic structure?)2016

    • Author(s)
      Younghyon Heo
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Neuroscience and Language Teaching
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Macau
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-12
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Syntactic boundary marking in L2 speech: Pause and pitch reset by Japanese learners of English2015

    • Author(s)
      Younghyon Heo, Jeremy Perkins, Emiko Kaneko, Naomi Ogasawara and Ahrong Lee
    • Organizer
      13th annual conference of the French Phonology Network
    • Place of Presentation
      Bordeaux, France
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-29
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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