Innovations in pronunciation teaching and learning via learner corpora of English and Mandarin

In addition to Cantonese serving mostly as first language, Hong Kong government encourages English and Mandarin as the second and third languages under the ‘Biliteracy and Trilingualism’ language policy. This talk reports on two corpus-based online pronunciation learning systems for English and Mandarin teachers, learners and researchers in order to better understand the major problems that Hong Kong Cantonese speakers encounter when learning English and Mandarin pronunciation. The corpus-based teaching materials and research findings will be provided to demonstrate how the applications of learner corpora inform student learning and teaching practices, and enhance teaching quality. Copyright © 2021 Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Teaching. All rights reserved.