Article published In:
Journal of Second Language PronunciationVol. 9:3 (2023) ► pp.332–339
The pedagogy of training Chinese students’ intonation online
This paper focuses on how the web-based intonation training occurred in the research project by Jiang and Chun (2023). It describes the pedagogical design, materials and activities, as well as the overall training plan. It also evaluates the effectiveness of this pedagogy. The findings have implications for applying the materials and activities in future research and teaching of L2 students’ intonation.
Keywords: intonation, pedagogy, materials, evaluation
Article outline
- 1.Background
- 2.The pedagogical design of our training
- 2.1Materials and tasks
- 3.Overall training plan
- 4.Evaluation
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