A Study on the Output of English Sounds by Cochlear Implantees and the Use of the CALL to Provide Supplementary Information

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370677
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences Junior College
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI KAORU 名古屋学芸大学短期大学部, 現代総合学科, 准教授 (20221319)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 外国語教育 / コンピュータ支援学習 / 音声分析 / 聴覚障害 / 体感音響振動 / 特別支援教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research the investigation on the English sound input and output by the auditory-challenged is reported. The purpose of this study is to clarify the status quo of the English prosodic acquisition by the auditory-challenged students,including cochlear implantees, and examine the somatic vibrations are helpful for them to improve their input and output. Therefore, this study focuses on analyzing the voices of the auditory-challenged students. The perception of the nuclear tones in compounds and phrases by the auditory-challenged students is also analyzed. The discrepancy between the results of the input and those of the output, between the perceptions and the productions, is found out in some cases. However, the somatic-vibration system successfully provides the supplementary information for the perception of prosodic patterns.

Free Research Field

英語教育