In developing English as a Lingua Franca, educators and researchers must employ new methods in language
acquisition to make the learners internationally intelligible and comprehensible. This study aimed to determine the implication of
infinite access to Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)-based language-learning program promoting pronunciation skills acquisition
of vocational higher education students. In this study, the students learned English as Lingua Franca (ELF) through a
collaborative approach. It applied a qualitative approach with 67 first-year university students from three intact classes as
participants. One class of 24 students was assigned as the first group utilising the ASR BoldVoice as the
additional learning materials in their speaking class. In contrast, the other two classes of 43 students were set as the second
and third groups carrying out conventional learning procedures. The development of participants’ utterances was analysed in terms
of fluency, completeness, and accuracy at pre- and post-test. In order to support the obtained data, a semi-structured interview
was performed right after the post-test. The result showed that the pronunciation skill of the experimental group was
significantly improved in particular phones of pronunciation: /ch/, /th/, /sh/, and /j/. The analysis of the interview data
confirmed that the students gained substantial improvement with regard to their pronunciation and communicative competence
compared to the conventional learning process.
The evolution of language, mainly English as a global lingua franca, undoubtedly has been one of the crucial key factors
considered by non-native speakers (NNSs) (Jung, 2010). Many experts (Field, 2005; Jung, 2010; J. M.
Levis, 2018; Pennington, 2021) noted that the extensive development of English
as the world lingua franca has a consequential effect on pronunciation teaching (Zoghbor,
2018). This phenomenon is acknowledged as the relevant factors in pronunciation instruction to determine the quality of
learners’ oral proficiency and fluency levels. The trend of English as Lingua Franca (ELF) has been widely used particularly in the
countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (e.g Cambodia, Indonesia, Viet Nam) referring to the pronunciation
diversity of the English learners. This diversity mostly arises due to their cultural background and varied languages (Lim, 2016).
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