Strengthening the english language pronunciation through self-recordings

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to analyze the effects of the use of self-recordings on the pronunciation of the English language. The participants were 37 students between the ages of 7 to 10 years old. This research was carried out in the "Nueva Era" Educational Unit. With a quantitative approach and a pre-experimental design, a pretest and a posttest were applied taking the Cambridge A2 Flyers exam as a reference.14 interventions in which the student's workbook, extra reading books and worksheets were used. Along with this, the readings and activities were used to teach the English pronunciation of new words that the students reviewed in the activities. Likewise, the Vocaroo website was used to put students' English pronunciation into practice through some tasks sent. At the end, the Post-test was taken, which has two parts such as the Pre-test. The Pretest average was 5.946 out of 10 points and the Post-test average was 6.973 out of 10 points. The results showed that the students improved their pronunciation in English using self-recordings, which means that the effect of using self-recordings in the classroom was positive, since students could self-correct their pronunciation errors by listening to their own audios when they were practicing it, thus being a source of feedback for them and allowing them to become aware of their mistakes and difficulties.