Enhancing pronunciation through interactive subtitles in students of 10th and 11th grade of high school CDA

Abstract

To develop pronunciation skills is imperative to communicate with the others, nevertheless, regrettably it is one of the skills less work at class. Fraser (2000) affirmed that the pronunciation is one of the skills most difficult of managing in learning of a second language, but it is very important to speak fluently and with foreign accent. Based on this idea, this project aimed to provide a learning tool (ingles.in) to students of 10th and 11th grade of the CDA school, in order that students could improve their listening and pronunciation of the English language through the comprehensive language and under the Natural Method proposed by Krashen & Terrell in 1983, in which students are able to acquire a language through imitation and feedback on their learning process. The project was carried out through a mixed methods design between experimental research and descriptive research for quantitative data in which, through descriptive and inferential statistics, it is intended to address the research problem and the hypothesis to verify and conclude the effectiveness of the ingles.in tool in the students' learning process. The findings of this project contribute to verify if the ingles.in learning tool helped students to improve their pronunciation, additionally it will provide material, such as student-generated audios, that will help to support other projects in the field of pronunciation.