A class model to teach pronunciation using CALL

The current study aimed to present a specific class model using CALL for teaching pronunciation based on the research findings in the field and to investigate its pedagogical effectiveness. Despite the fact that EFL learners need to achieve communicative competence with intelligible pronunciation, pronunciation classes have been marginalized in EFL setting mostly due to teacher’s lack of knowledge in teaching strategies and technology in pronunciation instruction. With using recording equipment and web-community, the instruction presented in the current study focused on teaching suprasegmental features for better intelligibility, and building up confidence and speech monitoring ability, which are the major goals of pronunciation instruction. Class objectives and each step of class procedure to achieve the goals were presented in detail. For investigating the effectiveness of the instruction, the students’ recordings were quantitatively analyzed. The result showed that the students made a significant progress in the suprasegmental features after the instruction. An additional students’ survey with the online peer feedback and student reflections showed that the offline presentation, recording process, and online peer feedback were most helpful in building speech monitoring ability and self-confidence.