Adobe Audition and Stress and Intonation Awareness

It can be seen from Tables 5 and 6 that there is a significant difference in the
students’ achievement in pronouncing English sentences after they learned how to
pronounce English sentences with appropriate stress and intonation accompanied
by the sound waves views of Adobe Audition 1.5 which is shown in the
significance level (0.000). The students’ average achievement also increased from
5.18 to 7.64.
In conclusion, the use of Adobe Audition 1.5 sound wave views could help
the students in the researcher’s Pronunciation class to get better understanding on
how to use English stress and intonation appropriately. Instead, the students also
gained better awareness in using appropriate English stress and intonation. They
were aware that English stress and intonation are different from Indonesian stress
and intonation. Furthermore, they also realized that they needed to pay more
attention on some common patterns of English stress and intonation. Furthermore,
they were also highly motivated to attend the lessons since the visualization of
sound wave views on Adobe Audition 1.5 encouraged them to model how English
sounds are produced in terms of the height of the sound waves. Therefore, the
researcher strongly suggests that teachers of English pronunciation use Adobe
Audition to support the teaching and learning process.
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