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KMID : 0917520070140030031
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Journal of Speech Sciences
2007 Volume.14 No. 3 p.31 ~ p.46
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A Study on the Efficacy of Teaching English Discourse Intonation: Blended Learning
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Kim He-Kyung
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Abstract
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This study attempts to investigate that the training of pitch manipulation would help Korean speakers reduce the intonation errors based on the review of many previous studies on Korean speakers’ phonetic realization of intonation. The previous studies have indicated that Korean speakers have problems with pitch manipulation in their production of English word stress, sentence stress, and eventually intonation. To train Korean speakers phonetically realize English pitch patterns, a blended learning module was operated for two weeks: face-to-face instruction for six hours and e-learning instruction for three hours in total. This module was designed to help Korean speakers realize pitch as a distinctive phoneme. An acoustic assessment on five Korean female English speakers shows that the training of pitch manipulation helps Korean English speakers reduce the intonation errors indicated in the previous studies reviewed.
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KEYWORD
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pitch, intonation errors blended learning module
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