Audio-Visual Teaching Aid for Instructing English Stress Timings

This study proposed and evaluated an audio-visual teaching aid for teaching rhythm of spoken English. The teaching aid instructs stress timing of English by movements of a circle marker on PC screen. Native Japanese participants exercised English sentences with and without the teaching aid and their speech sounds were recorded before and after the exercise. The results of analyses of the speech sounds showed that the teaching aid could improve in learning the English stress timing