Learning games have a remarkable potential for education. They provide an emergent form
of social participation that deserves the assessment of their usefulness and efficiency in …

Higher education has become undisputed platform of autonomous learning in which
students must learn to self-regulate their own learning and apply it within their environment …

Research and teaching of second language pronunciation increasingly is intertwined with
the use of technology, both for analysis and description and for pronunciation learning …

The quality of speech technology (automatic speech recognition, ASR, and textto-speech,
TTS) has considerably improved and, consequently, an increasing number of computer …

Availability and usability of mobile smart devices and speech technologies ease the
development of language learning applications, although many of them do not include …

Distinguishing and pronouncing the sound of sha, sa, ja, za, tsu, double sounds, long
sounds, nasal sounds, and youon sounds are still considered difficult for Japanese learners; …

Over the past few years the number of online language teaching materials for non-native
speakers of Estonian has increased. However, they focus mainly on vocabulary and pay …

Duolingo is likely the most used language learning app as evidenced by search results for
language learning indicate by far the most popular (9,429,251 ratings in the Google Play …

In this document, we describe the mobile application Japanol1, a learning tool which helps
pronunciation training of Spanish as a foreign language (L2) at a segmental level. The tool …

The way in which people speak reveals a lot about where they are from, where they were
raised, and also where they have recently lived. When communicating in a foreign language …