Oral proficiency training in Dutch L2: The contribution of ASR-based corrective feedback

Speech Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 853-863

  Cucchiarini, Catia ^a   Neri, Ambra ^a   Strik, Helmer ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accent reduction; Computer assisted pronunciation training (CAPT); Corrective feedback; Goodness of pronunciation; Pronunciation error detection

Indexed keywords

ACCENT REDUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED PRONUNCIATION TRAINING (CAPT); CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK; GOODNESS OF PRONUNCIATION; PRONUNCIATION ERROR DETECTION;

REMELTING;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 67650642307     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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