چکیده:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of CALL/Web-based instruction on improving EFL learners’ pronunciation ability. To this end, 85 students who were enrolled in a language institute in Rasht were selected as subjects. These students were given the Oxford Placement Test in order to validate their proficiency levels. They were then divided into two groups of 30 and were randomly assigned to two treatment conditions (experimental and control). A pre-test of pronunciation was administered to two groups, then the students were exposed to the treatments for 12 sessions. The CALL/Web-based instruction was used in the experimental group, while conventional methods were employed in the control group. Based on the statistical analysis there found to be a significant difference between the performance of the control and the experimental groups. The finding also displayed that the web-based learning was effective in enhancing learners’ motivation in improving pronunciation. The findings of the present study may have implications for L2 learners, teachers, and materials developers.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Impact of Computer–Assisted Language Learning (CALL) /Web- Based Instruction on Improving EFL Learners’ Pronunciation Ability Fereshteh Rahnavard1 & Davood Mashhadi Heidar2 Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran Received: November 30, 2016 Accepted: January 31, 2017 Online Published: March 20, 2017 1Department of English, Email:fereshteh.
While the age that someone begins learning a FL seems to have the largest effect on pronunciation (Piper & Cansin, 1988; Thompson, 1991), studies have shown that training can also help to improve students’ pronunciation (Graeme, 2006; Lord, 2005; Ramírez-Verdugo, 2006).
Since students often have a difficult time hearing their own pronunciation mistakes and judging the nativelikeness of their speech, visual displays can help to show specific sounds and the patterns of prosody (Ehsani & Knodt, 1998; Hardison, 2004; Martin, 2004; Pennington, 1989; Ramírez-Verdugo, 2006; Seferoglu, 2005).
This means that the very implementation of computer assisted language learning helped the experimental group pronounce the English words significantly better than the control group; thus, the hypothesis that there is not any significant difference between the mean scores of the group taught using CALL-based/Web-based methods and the group taught using traditional methods was disconfirmed.
5. Discussion With respect to the question of the study, "Does web-based instruction have any effect on Iranian EFL learners' pronunciation ability?" the results of the study proved that using websites as a tool was effective in fostering the experimental group students' pronunciation."