REVIEW OF CONNECTED SPEECH
Protea Textware Pty Ltd
Reviewed by Joy Egbert,
Vol. 8, Num. 1, January 2004, pp. 24-28.
“Many pronunciation experts agree that pronunciation teaching and learning must be situated in communicative contexts” (Fraser, 1999; Levis, 1999; Otlowski, 1998; Wennerstrom, 1999)
Connected Speech (CS):
It is software that it is used in classroom with the aim of improving clarity and accuracy of spoken communication, also helps students to develop effective communication skills and in terms of evaluation the CS uses recognition of speech and tells the student if the sound that they made is acceptably.
The role of the teacher working with this software:
It must be a facilitator rather than error corrector or ultimate speech model and in this role, the teacher can offer various models, provide opportunities for practice, suggest specific techniques, and give encouragement and advice to learners as they work toward intelligibility.
Morley (1991) calls this role the "speech coach."
This review talks about the different uses that we can do with the CS software in terms of using it in classes, it mentions the drawbacks and advantages of its uses also mentions that there is no interaction as the personal interaction with the real interests.
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