Teaching L2 pronunciation in OneNote: Exploring students' performance and views

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the acceleration of technological changes in language education in universities as well as in other educational levels. Technology has been of great use in the case of online or hybrid English teaching, but most importantly to support classroom practice during short confinement periods or to practice oral skills without a mask out of the classroom. This chapter describes five activities to enhance students' pronunciation and phonological awareness in OneNote. The activities were put into practice with a group of twenty-one future teachers in the course English Phonetics over a period of 12 weeks. After that, their performance and their perceptions on the tasks were explored by means of an ad hoc post-questionnaire composed of open answer questions, together with multiple and single response ones. The results indicate that in general the tasks that were designed were perceived as positive in terms of support of classroom practice, but also in connection with error detection, phonological awareness purposes or access to feedback. Furthermore, participants' views related to the future applicability of the tasks were optimistic. © Peter Lang GmbH. International Academic Publishers Berlin 2023. All rights reserved.