Adobe Audition and Stress and Intonation Awareness
Adobe Audition and Stress and Intonation Awareness
Adobe Audition and Stress and Intonation Awareness
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English stress <strong>and</strong> intonation patterns. In other words, they became familiar to<br />
how to produce English sounds with appropriate stress <strong>and</strong> intonation.<br />
Furthermore, they also found the pronunciation class more interesting than before<br />
since they got a different medium of learning, the <strong>Adobe</strong> <strong>Audition</strong> 1.5 wave views<br />
which support their learning.<br />
In addition, the quantitative data also show that the students made a significant<br />
progress after the teacher used <strong>Adobe</strong> <strong>Audition</strong> 1.5 in the Pronunciation class. It<br />
can be seen from the students’ improvement on pronouncing English words,<br />
phrases, sentences, <strong>and</strong> intonation. The researcher made use the students’ scores<br />
collected from the pre-test which was conducted before the researcher used <strong>Adobe</strong><br />
<strong>Audition</strong> 1.5 as one of the teaching media, <strong>and</strong> the post-test which was conducted<br />
at the end of the semester, after he used the <strong>Adobe</strong> <strong>Audition</strong> 1.5 in the class. He<br />
divided the students’ scores into scores on pronouncing English words, phrases,<br />
sentences with appropriate stress <strong>and</strong> students scores on using the appropriate<br />
English intonation. The result of each of the test is shown in the following tables.<br />
Table 1. Paired Sample Statistics for Pronouncing words<br />
Paired Samples Statistics<br />
Mean N Std. Deviation Std. Error Mean<br />
Pair 1 pre_word 5.5455 22 1.14340 .24377<br />
post_word 7.4545 22 .59580 .12703<br />
Table 2. The Result of Paired-sample t-test on Students’ Ability on<br />
Pronouncing English Words<br />
Pair 1 pre_word -<br />
post_word<br />
Mean<br />
Paired Samples Test<br />
Paired Differences<br />
Std.<br />
Deviation<br />
Std.<br />
Error<br />
Mean<br />
95% Confidence<br />
Interval of the<br />
Difference<br />
Lower Upper<br />
t df<br />
94<br />
Sig. (2tailed)<br />
-1.90909 .92113 .19639 -2.31750 -1.50068 -9.721 21 .000<br />
It can be seen from Tables 1 <strong>and</strong> 2 that there is a significant difference in the<br />
students’ achievement in pronouncing English words after they learned how to<br />
pronounce English words with appropriate stress <strong>and</strong> intonation accompanied by<br />
the sound waves views of <strong>Adobe</strong> <strong>Audition</strong> 1.5 which is shown in the significance<br />
level (0.000). The students’ average achievement also increased from 5.54 to 7.45.
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