Impact of Online Video Dubbing Activities on Grade 5 Students’ Pronunciation, Accuracy, and Fluency in English Speaking: An Experimental Research

Authors

  • Min XIE Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong Author
  • Alex Wing Cheung TSE Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58459/icce.2024.4912

Abstract

The increased adoption of dubbing software, which gives students a chance to imitate native speakers' pronunciation of English, has led to a surge in research on its application in foreign language learning. Some reported effects on students' oral English, particularly in terms of intelligibility and comprehensibility, can be identified. However, the related studies on students' spoken English, in terms of pronunciation, accuracy, and fluency stressed in the Nativeness Principle, are still in their nascent stages. To address this issue, this study adopted an experimental approach to figure out whether dubbing activities affect grade 5 students' English speaking in these three factors. Two classes served as the experimental group (n=104) to learn English speaking with online video dubbing activities for 12 sessions while the other two classes (n- 102) participated as the control group to learn the same content traditionally without the dubbing activities. For pre-tests and post-tests, a 15-item, 3-factor English Speaking Proficiency Questionnaire was adopted (i.e. pronunciation, accuracy, and fluency). The results of ANCOVA showed a significant difference in the overall English- speaking proficiency of students between the two groups (F = 8.291, p = 0.004;

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Published

2024-11-25

How to Cite

Impact of Online Video Dubbing Activities on Grade 5 Students’ Pronunciation, Accuracy, and Fluency in English Speaking: An Experimental Research. (2024). International Conference on Computers in Education. https://doi.org/10.58459/icce.2024.4912