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"As a result of the latter development, teachers and researchers in the field have insisted on paying more attention to segmental and supra-segmental features of speech, the main argument being their importance for communication (Chun, 1998; Eskenazi & Hansma, 1998).
(2009), CALL has a number of potential advantages: liberating from time limitations and teacher dependence by being able to study and practice at one‟s desired setting and extent, being able to practice at one‟s own pace, being able to store the user‟s profile to monitor the progress, having access to a number of additional materials such as visualizations, recordings, animations, individualizing learning process, and finally removing the stress related to the fact that the learner is being listened to by his/her colleagues, "the last of which seems particularly important in the case of pronunciation/prosody learning" (p.
This software is designed based on foreign accent reduction at intermediate level of language proficiency and focuses on segmental and supra-segmental features as well as overall speech rate by capturing the speech of any user after (s)he has listened to a native-like model trying to reproduce the model‟s speech as similarly as possible.
Since the participants were homogenized both in terms of their overall language 58 proficiency and their foreign accent prior to the treatment and the only procedural difference in their instruction was use of CALL, the significant difference between the two groups in terms of foreign accent reduction at the end of the treatment period could be logically attributed to the impact of utilizing CALL applications inside the class and through e-learning."