대한음성학회:학술대회논문집 (Proceedings of the KSPS conference)
- 대한음성학회 2000년도 7월 학술대회지
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- Pages.241-254
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- 2000
Computerized English Pronunciation Testing
- Lim, Chang-Keun (Keuk-Dong Information College) ;
- Kang, Seung-Man (Korea National University of Education)
- 발행 : 2000.07.01
초록
The past decade has witnessed the abundant use of computer in testing language skills such as listening and reading. Compared with these language skills, we have experienced little use of computer in testing a speaking skill including pronunciation. This is largely due to limitations of the current computer technology. One of such limitations for testing pronunciation is to store and automatically evaluate what the learner utters. Due to this limitation, the computer simply stores what the learner utters and raters evaluate it afterward on a certain rating continuum. With the advent of voice recognition technology, however, the computer has been able to test pronunciation in a systematic way. This technology enables the computer to identify, visually show, and evaluate the learner's intonation pattern by means of autocorrection. The evaluation is expressed in terms of the degree in which the learner's intonation pattern overlaps with that of the native speaker of the target language. In particular, the degree is numerically displayed on the screen, and this numeral is considered as the score of the learner's utterance under our testing framework.
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