Lyrics Training and the pronunciation of the English language

Abstract

To determine the relationship between the Lyrics Training and the pronunciation of the English language in the third semester from Pedagogía de Los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros career at Universidad Técnica de Ambato involves English students’ interest with the segmental and supra-segmental features comprehension. Moreover, an international approval exam from Cambridge, which was PET Speaking Part 1, was used to collect students’ academic information; it was applied to 27 students. Nevertheless, qualitative and quantitative approaches were applied to the experiment because they include the whole group in the same context without dividing the research into its parts. It is concerted due to the specific data collection and numerical measurement with observations and descriptions through the T-Student test to get the results of the entire process to know the alternative or null hypothesis. Therefore, the results suggest that there is a relationship between the Lyrics Training app and the pronunciation of the English language that the practice of segmental and supra-segmental features reinforce the phonological features for speaking. Altogether, the research project showed that the execution of the app in pronunciation activities helps to expand students’ interest in pronunciation activities to improve their pronunciation subskill and their speaking development