Katsumi NAGAI (Kagawa University)
Abstract: Teachers of foreign languages often have their students pronounce target structures repeatedly, individually or in chorus. Because repetition after a teacher and repetition with a teacher are the most widely used ways of pronunciation practice in a language classroom, the aim of this paper was to measure the effectiveness of the two types of practice. Grammatical and non-grammatical test sentences in artificial languages were synthesized by arranging three or four bisyllabic nonsense words. The participants were asked to repeat the test sentences in two ways (i.e. repeating after and with the model) and to judge whether the sentences were grammatical or not by pressing keys on a response pad. The results indicate that repeating with the model tends to yield better scores than repeating after the model.
