This study explores university students' attitudes regarding the potential of artificial
intelligence (AI)-assisted mobile applications (apps) to support the development of speaking …

Unlike previous generations, today's learners are surrounded by interactive media-sharing
technologies leading to different learning styles (McBride, 2009). The advent of Web 2.0 …

The increase in non-native English (NNE) instructors involved in English-medium instruction
(EMI) in higher education has led to growing concerns about the evaluation of lecturers' …

Recent studies have sought to describe and understand English as a second/foreign
language (ESL/EFL) teachers' pronunciation teaching practices in different contexts, but …

Technology has paved the way for new modalities in language learning, teaching, and
assessment. However, there is still a great deal of work to be done to develop such tools for …

This study explores English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' perceptions of the
promise and limitations of EAP Talk, an AI-based speech evaluation system, for speaking …

In a within-subjects experiment, 119 Dutch listeners evaluated authentic English and Dutch
lecture fragments recorded by the same Dutch lecturer. For each fragment, they answered …

Praat is a freeware program widely used by phoneticians for acoustic analyses of speech
sounds, though less commonly so for pedagogical purposes. To our knowledge, no …

Spanish/Catalan learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) attended a formal
instruction (FI) period combined with explicit pronunciation instruction, which consisted of …

In a verbal guise experiment, 178 listeners with three nationalities (58 F rench, 59 G erman
and 61 S panish) listened to samples recorded by female speakers with three degrees of …