Article
The design of an instrument to evaluate sotware for EFL/ESL pronunciation teaching
Ilha do Desterro
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Date
1-1-2016
DOI
10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n1p141
Abstract
This study aimed at designing an instrument composed of 72 questions that evaluate the extent to which sotware programs teach pronunciation of English as a Foreign Language and/or Second Language (EFL/ESL) following the principles of the Communicative Approach (Celce-Murcia et al, 2010). he designed instrument was tested for reliability and validity. For this purpose, 46 EFL/ESL teachers used the instrument to analyze an online version of the sotware program Pronunciation Power 2. he participants’ answers to the questions were subjected to reliability and validity tests. he results of these statistical tests suggest the instrument is potentially valid for evaluating EFL/ESL pronunciation teaching sotware.
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Copyright Owner
The Authors
Copyright Date
2016
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
John Levis, Cristiana Gomes de Fretias Menezes Martins and Vladia Maria Cabral Borges. "The design of an instrument to evaluate sotware for EFL/ESL pronunciation teaching" Ilha do Desterro Vol. 69 Iss. 1 (2016) p. 141 - 160 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john-levis/8/
This article is published as Martin, C., Borges, V., & Levis, J. (2016). The design of an instrument to evaluate software for EFL/ESL pronunciation teaching. Ilha do Desterro, 69(1), 141-160. 10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n1p141. Posted with permission.