Using a computer in foreign language pronunciation training: What advantages?

CALICO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 447-469

  Eskenazi, Maxine ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

CALL; Direct Approach; Duration; Immersion; Intensity; Phonemes; Pitch; Pronunciation; Prosody; Speech Recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844492574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20569017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/cj.v16i3.447-469     Document Type: Article

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