Investigating the effects of pronunciation training on EFL learners' speaking confidence praat oriented model
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2016
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university of Oum El Bouaghi
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The present study aims at investigating the effectiveness of pronunciation training and how it influenced the learners' speaking confidence. This study rests on the assumption that if EFL learners are exposed to pronunciation training, their speaking confidence at the level of comfortable intelligibility will be enhanced. Hence, to fulfill the aim of the study, answer the research questions and check the reliability of the hypotheses, an experimental design was adopted. The experiment is operationalized in five treatment sessions preceded and followed, respectively, by a pretest and a posttest. The study involved thirty students of English department at Mila Center University. The participants were divided into two groups: an experimental group where the learners were exposed to different training activities and a control group where the learners were not exposed to any kind of training. The findings of the study showed that the exposure to pronunciation training in an EFL setting brought positive outcomes in terms of learners' speaking confidence.
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Prononciation