Interviews reveal ESL learners valued ASR for bypassing orthography and grammar concerns, pronunciation practice, self-efficacy, and user-friendly voice commands¶

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q2 i? Qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews identified positive perceptions including ease of producing texts without worrying about orthography and grammar, opportunities to improve pronunciation and self-efficacy when speaking, and user-friendly voice commands. → Johnson 2021

Evidence¶

Johnson 2021¶

Johnson, C., & Cardoso, W. (2021). Speaking to write: examining language learners’ acceptance of automatic speech recognition as a writing tool. In N. Zoghlami et al. (Eds), CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 2021 (pp. 167-171). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2021.54.1327

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Semi-structured interviews with the 17 participants were coded for positive, negative, neutral, or mixed perceptions (Saldaña, 2009). The quoted sentence lists the appreciated affordances participants named.

"Interviews revealed that participants appreciated the ease of producing texts without having to worry about orthography and grammar, the possibility to improve their pronunciation and self-efficacy when speaking, and the user-friendly voice commands."

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