CASTLE: A computer-assisted stress teaching and learning environment for learners of English as a Second Language

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 606-609

  Lu, Jingli ^a,b   Wang, Ruili ^a,b   De Silva, Liyanage C ^a,c   Gao, Yang ^b   Liu, Jia ^d  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computer assisted pronunciation training (CAPT); English stress; Prosody

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; E-LEARNING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TEACHING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ASSISTED; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGES (ESL); ENGLISH LANGUAGES; LEARNING MATERIALS; PRONUNCIATION TRAININGS; PROSODY; TEACHING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTER-ASSISTED PRONUNCIATION TRAINING; ENGLISH STRESS; STRESS PATTERNS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 78649495439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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