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2019-12-01
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Over the last few years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have emerged as a new model of online teaching which coexists with other forms of distance learning (Baker, 2012; Castrillo, 2014). This paper examines how MOOCs can offer alternative ways of instruction that can complement the curricula of official regulated subjects in higher education. In particular, we analyse the effects of the MOOC “The Acquisition of English Pronunciation through Songs and Literary Texts” on the proficiency rates of English pronunciation performed by a group of Spanish speakers. The MOOC, designed by a team of teachers from the Distance Learning University in Spain (UNED), was offered as additional voluntary work for four weeks to the 640 students registered in the subject English Pronunciation, a compulsory course in the second year of the Degree in English Studies (UNED). The MOOC followed a new approach to phonetics teaching based on the stress and rhythmic patterns of literary and music forms, which differs from the traditional models of English phonetics tuition mainly based on vowel and consonant contrasts. The pronunciation competences of the students were measured as part of a final oral exam which assesses a variety of pronunciation phenomena, including both segmental and prosodic features. The students that followed the MOOC showed better results in English pronunciation than those that only worked with the materials and the methodology offered in the course. These results enhance the benefits of using MOOCs as extracurricular input to official regulated higher education programs.
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Acceso al texto completo: https://pure.coventry.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/27637722/Proceedings_OOFHEC2019.pdf
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MOOC, English pronunciation, distance learning, stress,, rhythm
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Estebas-Vilaplana, E. & Soláns García, M. (2019). “Teaching English pronunciation in a MOOC: a complement to official regulated subjects”. En Ubachs, G. & Joosten-Adriaanse, F. (eds.) Blended and online education within European university networksOnline, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference Proceedings (OOFHE 2019). Madrid: UNED. pp. 324-335. ISBN: 9789079730414
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Facultad de Filología
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Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas