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Affective Effects of Self-Pronunciation Evaluation via Online Search Engines #1054

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This research presents the pedagogical effects of self-pronunciation evaluations incorporating free online search engines such as Siri and Google Translate to facilitate Japanese university learners’ automaticity. For this research, systematically designed evaluation methods and materials were developed. The foci were (a) to promote activities that reinforced the self-monitoring and self-repair skills students developed during instruction and (b) to use available technology that students could access easily at any time. The designed systematic self-evaluation sheet enabled students to track and record their production changes for each target English word throughout the instruction. This study presents (a) the evaluation sheet and work results of the students, (b) a list of misrecognized words, and (c) questionnaire results examining the learners’ affective valuables utilizing the online recognition system. The study revealed that use of the search engine along with explicit instruction provided effective monitoring tools that helped foster autonomous learners.