Gains were largest in stress and pronunciation, smallest in speech-sound articulation, and about 10% of experimental students showed no progress¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? The greatest advancement was in students' use of stress and pronunciation. → Namaziandost 2018 q2 i? Roughly 10% of students showed no progress and 90% improved their prosodic ability. → Namaziandost 2018 (2)

Evidence¶

Namaziandost 2018¶

Namaziandost, E., Esfahani, F. R., & Hashemifarnia, A. (2018). The Impact of Using Authentic Videos on Prosodic Ability among Foreign Language Learners. International Journal of Instruction, 11(4), 375-390. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1191678

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Authors' interpretation of the expert raters' component-level reports after the 12-session treatment: "The most astounding advancement was in students' utilization of stress, and pronunciation", with least advance in articulation of sounds absent from the mother tongue. No per-component statistics are printed.

"The most astounding advancement was in students' utilization of stress, and pronunciation. Nonetheless, the least advance was in articulation of speech sounds, particularly in pronouncing those consonants and vowels that do not stand in the students' mother tongue."

Namaziandost 2018 (2)¶

Namaziandost, E., Esfahani, F. R., & Hashemifarnia, A. (2018). The Impact of Using Authentic Videos on Prosodic Ability among Foreign Language Learners. International Journal of Instruction, 11(4), 375-390. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1191678

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Authors' summary of individual progress in the experimental group: "Roughly, 10% of the students demonstrated no progressions and 90% enhanced their prosodic ability"; they note two of twenty students showed no progress and attribute hesitation and stress effects to test performance.

"Roughly, 10% of the students demonstrated no progressions and 90% enhanced their prosodic ability."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Pronunciation gains from instruction plus monitoring are smaller in spontaneous speech than in vocabulary and sentence reading — related
• Native-speaker raters of Arabic-accented English speech focused more on prosodic elements (stress, rhythm, intonation, speech rate, sentence melody) than on individual sounds — related
• All three groups improved over ten weeks, with intonation gains preceding gains in timing and segmental pronunciation — related