| Autor: |
Yoko Sakamoto, Nobuhiro Sakata |
| Rok vydání: |
2017 |
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| Zdroj: |
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 142:2584-2585 |
| ISSN: |
0001-4966 |
| DOI: |
10.1121/1.5014462 |
| Popis: |
The aim of this study was to investigate which tool can be more effective way to practice English medical word pronunciation for Japanese medical students: a communication robot or a tablet. The subjects were 8 Japanese medical freshman students. The target words were 10 medical words related to an infectious disease. In the training, the subjects learned the meaning of the word in Japanese and then they practiced the pronunciation in English. Four subjects followed the order; Pretest → Robot → Posttest1 → Tablet → Posttest 2, while the remaining 4 subjects were counterbalanced; Pretest → Tablet → Posttest 1 → Robot → Posttest 2. All subjects answered the questionnaire after Posttest 2. The process was videorecorded and the waveform was analyzed. The results showed that the postures and voices of the subjects were better with a communication robot than with a tablet. The pronunciation practiced with a communication robot had improved with a fewer trial. The subjects wrote in the questionnaire that they co... |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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