Improving English speaking with parsing training

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K16799
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: The 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
• Keywords: Shadowing / English Prosody

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.

Free Research Field

Phonology