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    • Englishville: a Multi-Sensorial Tool for Prosody 

      Costille , Kizzi Edensor (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)
      Research has shown that prosody plays an important role in the intelligibility, comprehensibility and accentedness of non-native discourse (Munro and Derwing, 1995, 1998). Yet prosody is deemed difficult to teach (Setter ...
    • Microsoft Reading Progress as Capt Tool 

      Molenda , Marek; Grabarczyk , Izabela (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)
      The paper explores the accuracy of feedback provided to non-native learners of English by a pronunciation module included in Microsoft Reading Progress. We compared pronunciation assessment offered by Reading Progress ...
    • More Harm than Good: Why Dictionaries Using Orthographic Transcription Instead of the IPA Should Be Handled with Care 

      Bryła-Cruz, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)
      The aim of the present paper is to shed more light on using L1 (Polish) orthographic spelling to represent the pronunciation of English words in English-Polish dictionaries (e.g. journey /dżerni/, ship /szyp/) and discuss ...
    • Student-Teacher Conferences in an English Pronunciation Course: Goals, Characteristics and Views 

      Sardegna , Veronica G. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)
      Student-teacher conferences are considered an effective pedagogical tool for individualized writing instruction. Yet, little is known about the goals, characteristics and perceptions of student-teacher conferences for ...
    • Use of L2 Pronunciation Techniques in and Outside Classes: Students’ Preferences 

      Kusz , Ewa; Pawliszko , Judyta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-12-29)
      The present study describes the level of effectiveness of both traditional and computer-assisted second language pronunciation techniques from the students’ perspectives. By traditional techniques we mean those activities ...