The Role of Pronunciation-Focused Corrective Feedback in Learning Second Language Pronunciation

This paper aims at investigating the role of pronunciation-focused corrective feedback in learning language pronunciation. The paper provides a systematic review of teaching pronunciation by issues discussed in the literature of L2 pronunciation, such as the importance of and supra-segmental features, time devoted to teaching pronunciation, and learners’ first background. It then moves to shed light on the effectiveness of corrective feedback in pronunciation. This is followed by a discussion of the role of corrective feedback in teaching 2 pronunciation. After that the author presents ways in which technology can be used to provide corrective feedback. Finally, a discussion of the different types of corrective feedback their effectiveness is presented. The paper concludes by suggesting further research to investigate effectiveness of different types of pronunciation-focused corrective feedback as well as the role of 2 speech technology in providing pronunciation-focused corrective feedback to L2 learners.