This study investigates the effects of three instruction modalities on English intonation learning. (i) watching haptic video, (ii) doing a punching gesture, and (iii) viewing intonation contours. The intonation of their oral reading was compared in a pretest/posttest design. The results suggest that all instructions were effective in moving towards the canonical pitch shape. However, pitch range expansion was significant only for males.
Cite as: Yamane, N., Teaman, B., Fujimori, A., Wilson, I., Yoshimura, N. (2018) The kinesthetic effect on EFL learners' intonation. Proc. International Symposium on Applied Phonetics (ISAPh 2018), 136-141, doi: 10.21437/ISAPh.2018-25
@inproceedings{yamane18_isaph,
author={Noriko Yamane and Brian Teaman and Atsushi Fujimori and Ian Wilson and Noriko Yoshimura},
title={{The kinesthetic effect on EFL learners' intonation}},
year=2018,
booktitle={Proc. International Symposium on Applied Phonetics (ISAPh 2018)},
pages={136--141},
doi={10.21437/ISAPh.2018-25}
}