Musical Intelligence and Its Impact on English Pronunciation Skills in the Process of Second Language Acquisition

ISBN-13: 9783631780435 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str.

Ewa Kusz

Opis

This book focuses on the results obtained from Wing's musical intelligence test and the pronunciation test measured by three English native speakers and by Praat. It delves into a detailed discussion of the obtained results and attempts to find the convergence between the level of musical intelligence and L2 pronunciation ability.

Spis treści

Musical intelligence and the theory of multiple intelligences - Herbert Wing's musical intelligence test - Assessment of speaking - Automatic measurement of L2 pronunciation skills - Speech rate - Articulation rate - Average syllable duration - Pausing - Fundamental frequency

O autorze

Ewa Kusz is an assistant professor in the Applied Linguistics Department at the University of Rzeszów, Poland. She specialises in English phonetics and phonology and automatic assessment of speaking.