Improving students' pronunciation through accent reduction software

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 303-316

  Seferoǧlu, Gölge ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

ACCENT REDUCTION SOFTWARE; DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION; ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33745200489     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2005.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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