About the Project
This Virtual Voice Laboratory is a TDG funded project which aims to serve two purposes which answer to the current students' need to improve English pronunciation and to promote innovativeness in teaching and implement blended learning. The first purpose is to realize blended learning in a language elective course (LUE3003) to provide a series of pronunciation practices and demonstration for students of LUE3003 to improve pronunciation through self learning.
The second purpose is to extend the voice visualization function to serve all Lingnan students to improve their pronunciation in the long run. This virtual laboratory allows students to compare their voice recording to a demonstrative recording with two sound waves shown for identification of areas of mispronunciation on the voice charts.
Project Research Output
Publication
Fan, Y. H. A. (forthcoming in 2025). Maximizing Teaching and Learning Efficacies through Digitalization – Experience: Sharing of an Action Research Project. In S. Gratchev & L. Sheret (Eds.), Advanced Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages: The New Development on Teaching Methodology in Today’s World. Book Chapter.
Fan, A. Y. H. (2024). Driving Digitalization: Action Research to Innovate Pronunciation Pedagogies by Building a Virtual Voice Laboratory. International Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 3(1), 27–55.
https://doi.org/10.33422/ijsfle.v3i1.708
Conference Presentations
FAN, Y. H. A. (2024). Enhancing Language Learning through Digitalization : A Case Study of a Pronunciation Course. Abstract from 7th International Conference on Advanced Research in Education, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
FAN, A. (2023). Digitalize and innovate teaching and learning of English Pronunciation in Hong Kong HE. AHKLC Annual Symposium, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.