Developing Mobile Application of Interactive English Pronunciation Training to Improve EFL Students’ Pronunciation Skill

Abstract

Pronunciation is one of language components that is crucial to support acceptable communciation in English. However, in English as Foreign Language settings, English pronunciation has received less attention on the teaching as the treatment has mostly been given to grammar, vocabulary, and the four language skills. This leads to English pronunciation errors by many EFL students like those in Indonesia. To deal with this matter, a mobile pronunciation training app needs to be develeped as nowadays mobile applications are becoming popular and are used by most of EFL students in Indonesia. This paper aims at elaborating how the mobile English pronunciation app is developed through Research and Development method.

Keywords: English Pronunciation, mobile apps, EFL.