The design of an instrument to evaluate software for EFL/ESL pronunciation teaching

Autores

  • Cristiana Gomes de Freitas Menezes Martins Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Vládia Maria Cabral Borges Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • John Michael Levis Iowa State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n1p141

Resumo

The purpose of this study was to develop and test the reliability and validity of an instrument to evaluate the extent to which software programs teach English as a Foreign Language and/or Second Language (EFL/ESL) pronunciation following the principles of the Communicative Approach (Celce-Murcia et al, 2010), thus having the potential to develop English pronunciation. After the development of the instrument, 46 EFL/ESL teachers used it to analyze an online version of the software program Pronunciation Power 2. The responses of the participants were submitted to statistical analysis and the validity and reliability of the instrument were tested. The good reliability indexes obtained in this study suggest the instrument has some degree of validity for evaluating how well an ESL/EFL pronunciation teaching software program potentially develops English pronunciation.

Biografia do Autor

Cristiana Gomes de Freitas Menezes Martins, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Doutora em Linguística pela Universidade Federal do Ceará com período sanduíche na Iowa State University, EUA

Professora em Instituições de Ensino Superior nos cursos de Letras, Administração, Direito, Turismo e Psicologia.

Vládia Maria Cabral Borges, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Ph.D. em Educação com área de concentração em Ensino de Inglês como Segunda Língua pela Universidade de Rhode Island, EUAProfessora do Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras da Universidade Federal do CearáDiretora do Centro de Humanidades da UFCCoordenadora IsF na UFC

John Michael Levis, Iowa State University

Professor, Applied Linguistics and TESL
Director of Graduate Education, English
Chair, Cross-Disciplinary Linguistics Program
Editor, Journal of Second Language Pronunciation

Publicado

2016-01-26

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