Using shadowing to improve students’ pronounciation of alveolar plosives

Abstract

This study aims to observe the effectiveness of using Shadowing in improving students’ pronounciation of the two alveolar plosives. Five second-year students at Foreign Languages Faculty participated in a 30 minutes practice session. After taking a pre-test, students started processing the method of Shadowing from a video with its transcript. Then they took post-test with the same questions at the end of the session. Students’ pronounciation at pre-test and post-test was recorded as data, which were then quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed. The results reveal that the method helped students recognize the two ending sounds /t/, /d/ better. All of these findings contribute substantially to sharpening students’ pronunciation