Speaking versus typing: a case-study of the effects of using voice-recognition software on academic correspondence

Hartley, James; Sotto, Éric; Pennebaker, James W.

doi:10.1111/1467-8535.00300

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“…Over the last few decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the variety of research on CALL. ASR‐based CALL systems benefit learners by providing them with integrated learning stimulation and opportunities to enhance their speaking skills in the foreign language (Hartley, Sotto, & Pennebaker, ). The timely evaluation of learner speech provides a learning environment wherein the learner can learn at his/her own pace.…”

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Effectiveness of feedback for enhancing English pronunciation in an ASR‐based CALL system

Wang

Young

2014

Computer Assisted Learning

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This paper presents a study on implementing the ASR‐based CALL (computer‐assisted language learning based upon automatic speech recognition) system embedded with both formative and summative feedback approaches and using implicit and explicit strategies to enhance adult and young learners' English pronunciation. Two groups of learners including 18 adults and 16 seventh graders participated in the study. The results indicate that the formative feedback had a positive impact on improving the learners' speaking articulation, and the summative feedback aided the learners' self‐reflection and helped them to track their speaking progress. Furthermore, the implicit information such as model pronunciation with full sentences and audio recast benefitted the adult learners, whereas the young learners preferred the explicit learning information such as textual information of individual words for self‐correction. In addition, the results of this study also confirm that learners have different perceptions of the media modalities designed with implicit and explicit strategies in the feedback. Feedback with audio modality is more suitable for adults, whereas juxtaposed textual and audio modalities are better for young learners.

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Effectiveness of feedback for enhancing English pronunciation in an ASR‐based CALL system

Wang

Young

2014

Computer Assisted Learning

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“…Longitudinal studies compare the same writers at different ages, but here the readers have to assume that the only thing that changes in their samples is their age. Few longitudinal studies mention other changes in, for example, life-styles, or even the tools that writers use to write over timefrom pen/pencil to typewriter, word-processor and, for example, voice-activated computers (but see Hartley, Sotto, & Pennebaker, 2003).…”

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An academic odyssey: writing over time

Hartley

Cabanac

2015

Scientometrics

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In this paper we present and discuss the results of six enquiries into the first author's academic writing over the last 50 years. Our aim is to assess whether or not his academic writing style has changed with age, experience, and cognitive decline. The results of these studies suggest that the readability of textbook chapters written by Hartley has remained fairly stable for over 50 years, with the later chapters becoming easier to read. The format of the titles used for chapters and papers has also remained much the same, with an increase in the use of titles written in the form of questions. It also appears that the format of the chosen titles had no effect on citation rates, but that papers that obtained the highest citation rates were written with colleagues rather by Hartley alone. Finally it is observed that Hartley's publication rate has remained much the same for over fifty years but that this has been achieved at the expense of other academic activities.

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“…Therefore, the two researchers concluded that the use of spelling checkers was useful for weaker students who have poor writing skills. A study by Hartley, Sotto, and Pennebaker (2003) found out there were significant differences between the average letter length, the number of paragraphs written, and the number of sentences used by students who utilized computers and those who did not. There were also major differences in terms of readability, or typographical and grammatical errors.…”

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Comparison of the Effectiveness of StyleWriter and Microsoft Word Computer Software to Improve English Writing Skills

Prvinchandar¹,

Ayub²

2013

ELT

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This study compared the effectiveness of two types of computer software for improving the English writing skills of pupils in a Malaysian primary school. Sixty students who participated in the seven-week training course were divided into two groups, with the experimental group using the StyleWriter software and the control group using the Microsoft Word programme. A pre-test was administered before the experiment was conducted. This was followed by post-tests upon completion of the course, where a computer-based assessment, as well as a pen-and-paper assessment, was employed. In each test, four components of writing skills were assessed, namely grammar, vocabulary, spelling, sentence structure, besides the overall performance. The findings indicated that the students who were exposed to StyleWriter had significantly better scores in all the writing components compared to the control group using Microsoft Word in both pen-and-paper and computer-based essay writing assessments. This study showed that StyleWriter enhanced the students' writing skills even when computer assistance was no longer available.

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Speaking versus typing: a case-study of the effects of using voice-recognition software on academic correspondence

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Effectiveness of feedback for enhancing English pronunciation in an ASR‐based CALL system

Effectiveness of feedback for enhancing English pronunciation in an ASR‐based CALL system

An academic odyssey: writing over time

Comparison of the Effectiveness of StyleWriter and Microsoft Word Computer Software to Improve English Writing Skills

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