Abstract
This study’s goal was to determine whether receiving a particular type of feedback on nativeness of second-language accent positively influenced pronunciation over time. Forty-five native speakers of American English of beginning to intermediate Spanish ability were randomly assigned to three groups. The first group was asked to practise Spanish using speech recognition-based software that provided scores of nativeness of pronunciation. The second group practised with software that was identical but with no feedback indicating pronunciation scores. The third group did not practise with the software. … The two practice groups showed a small but statistically significant improvement over the control group. …
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