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Looking for a mobile app to improve pronunciation in European Portuguese
| dc.contributor.author | Castelo, Adelina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-12T18:57:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-12T18:57:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-10-07 | |
| dc.description | 1ª Conferência Internacional "Language MOOCs e OERs", realizada na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, de 7-8 de outubro de 2022. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.abstract | A means to meet the pronunciation desired outcomes of diverse learners is to encourage them to use computer-assisted pronunciation training (e.g., O’Brien, 2018), especially tools allowing their learning to become more autonomous, accessible, ‘on-the-move’, and adjusted to their personal goals and needs. The mobile apps exhibit all these affordances and can even be designed to respond to challenges of specific learners’ groups in a more direct way (for instance, the difficulty in voicing contrasts in the case of Chinese Mandarin L1 – European Portuguese (EP) L2 – e.g., Oliveira, 2020). However, the mobile apps proposed for pronunciation training should present not only the general properties of a good language learning tool, but also the specific research-based requirements for pronunciation learning and teaching. This paper aims at observing the level of adjustment to the requirements for pronunciation learning and teaching in the available apps for EP. A corpus of ten promising apps is constituted, after using several inclusion criteria (e.g., English as the vehicular language to learn EP, availability of a free version with daily unlimited time of use). These are then analyzed according to a framework created for this study and based on key ideas proposed in Kukulske-Hulme (2021), the Framework for Language Learning App Evaluation by Rosell-Aguilar (2017), and the Framework for pronunciation teaching presented in Castelo (2022). Among the main findings from this analysis, it is possible to highlight: (1) the inexistence of an app with all the needed properties for pronunciation learning; (2) the identification of the three most useful mobile apps to learn the EP pronunciation (despite their limitations); (3) the listing of the main aspects to consider/improve when designing apps for this purpose in the future. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/draft | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Castelo, A. (2022). Looking for a mobile app to improve pronunciation in European Portuguese. First International Conference Language MOOCs and OERs: new trends and challenges (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Porto, 7-8/10/2022). | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/13133 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Pronunciation teaching | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Mobile-assisted language learning | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Portuguese as a Foreign Language | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | App evaluation | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Looking for a mobile app to improve pronunciation in European Portuguese | pt_PT |
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| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Porto | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | First International Conference Language MOOCs and OERs: new trends and challenges | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Castelo | |
| person.givenName | Adelina | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 821E-ABA2-80B9 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-9079-1066 | |
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