Workshop Series – Pronunciation

Abstract

This workshop aims at helping teachers to use learner corpora as a resource to work out pronunciation and providing teachers with examples of using learner corpora to design learning tasks. I will first introduce two international English speech accent archives (the speech accent archive and International Dialects of English Archive), and then share two self-developed spoken corpora. Several sets of ready-made, corpus-aided English pronunciation lesson plans and teaching materials will be provided to introduce the corpus-aided teaching and learning approach for learners at different levels.

About the speaker

Dr. Rebecca Chen is Associate Professor at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include inter-language phonology, experimental phonetics and computer assisted pronunciation learning. Recently Dr. Chen and her research team have completed the construction of three publicly accessible corpus-based pronunciation learning websites: Using self-developed learners’ corpora for pronunciation learning and teaching: English, Mandarin and Japanese.