#3826. The effectiveness of direct articulatory–abdominal pronunciation instruction for English learners in Hong Kong

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Abstract:
The main purpose of this research was to examine the effectiveness for L2 English learners of a new direct approach to segmental pronunciation instruction that combined articulatory instruction with abdominal enhancement techniques. The participants were speakers, where the school curriculum relies chiefly on indirect instruction within a task-based language teaching (TBLT) framework. Thus a second purpose of the study was to examine whether the direct approach may be a useful addition to the curriculum. Randomly-assigned experimental and comparison groups of recent school graduates completed pronunciation tasks embedded within a TBLT framework. Both groups completed a pretest/posttest reading-aloud task. The segments targeted in this test (and in the instruction) involved selected long vowel and diphthong sounds. Results showed the experimental group significantly outperformed the comparison group overall and in each of the categories.
Keywords:
Сurriculum issues; English language teaching; Pronunciation instruction; teaching methods

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