Enabling a cross-cultural collaborative community: networking technologies to form meaningful environments for higher education

Nishinaga, Nozomu; Tanaka, Kenji; Nishihori, Yuri; Nagaoka, Keizo; Harris, Dale; Okabe, Satoshi; Yamamoto, Yuichi

doi:10.1109/ithet.2004.1358164

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“…This has resulted in an increase in the number of listening activities (Rubin 1994). With respect to Japanese learners of English, a number of research studies on training listening skills have been reported (Strange and Dittmann 1984;Logan et al 1991;Akane-Yamada 1996;Tsuchiya and Matsuhata 2002) and enhancing learners' ability to perceive speech is increasingly highlighted in classroom learning (Nishinaga et al 2004;Kashiwagi et al 2006). Acquiring communication skills in English is emphasized to be an extremely important issue (MECST-Japan 2002).…”

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Synthetic speech in foreign language learning: an evaluation by learners

Kang

Katoh

Treviranus

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Int J Speech Technol

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Can synthetic speech be utilized in foreign language learning as natural speech? In this paper, we evaluated synthetic speech from the viewpoint of learners in order to find out an answer. The results pointed out that learners do not recognize remarkable differences between synthetic voices and natural voices for the words with short vowels and long vowels when they try to understand the meanings of the sounds. The data explicates that synthetic voice utterances of sentences are easier to understand and more acceptable by learners compared to synthetic voice utterances of words. In addition, the ratings on both synthetic voices and natural voices strongly depend upon the learners' listening comprehension abilities. We conclude that some synthetic speech with specific pronunciations of vowels may be suitable for listening materials and suggest that evaluating TTS systems by comparing synthetic speech with natural speech and building a lexical database of synthetic speech that closely approximates natural speech will be helpful for teachers to readily use many existing CALL tools.

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Synthetic speech in foreign language learning: an evaluation by learners

Kang

Katoh

Treviranus

et al. 2008

Int J Speech Technol

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“…Researches also found that using multimedia Internet communication tools can promote the establishment of an effective learning environment, students studying a second language by using these tools became more motivated not only to acquire communicative language skills for cross-cultural interaction in the classroom, but also to actively implement their acquired skills in relation to their future academic and career choices. [1] The STARS model, with the objective of returning to the actual or creating a virtual language environment and enhancing interactions, is based on the framework of Constructivism and Behaviorism, combining learning with field training through "learning-experiencing-imitatingrepeating-applying" process. STARS represents the first letters of Speaking (or reading, translating and writing), Transcripts, Arguments, Role-plays and Scenarios.…”

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The STARS model in a multimedia network environment: Improving interaction and experiencing

Liu

2011

2011 3rd International Conference on Computer Research and Development

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The paper proposes the STARS model (Speaking, Transcript, Argument, Role-play, Scenario) to improve interaction and experiencing in police English learning and policing field training with the assistance of multimedia computer networks. Speaking practice and transcript viewing help the learners to experience the original language; argument discussing, role-play and scenario based training enhance interactions among the participants in a virtual policing setting. Trainees of the program enjoy working collaboratively with the STARS model through integrating face to face learning with network mediated training.

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