Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: Shadowing was introduced to foreign language teaching in the 1990s and since then it has been researched in EFL teaching contexts.Shadowing has been used as a listening task, and its effectiveness on listening comprehension has been acknowledged.However, its effect on pronunciation development remains unclear.With this unresolved issue in mind, I have attempted to develop shadowing-based pronunciation teaching methods by combining shadowing with activities for pronunciation skill development, namely haptic-shadowing and IPA-shadowing.A total of 58 Japanese second-year university students participated in the experiment (29 for haptic-shadowing and 29 for IPA-shadowing).A total of 15 lessons were given to each group.The results show that the haptic-shadowing group statistically improved on all the three features of comprehensibility, segmental features, and suprasegmental features, while the IPA-shadowing group improved on comprehensibility and segmental features.Additionally, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted to examine learners" perceptions toward the two types of shadowing.Learners have a more positive and fresh image of haptic-shadowing and IPA-shadowing.
Source: The Journal of AsiaTEFL
Author: Hamada Yo
Institution: Akita University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2883551455