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    Implementation of the multistage frame technique to enhance students’ pronunciation of standard american english vowel sounds in group 10-1A at Canaán High School: a case study.
    (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2017) Acuña Aguilar, Elian; Quirós Cordero, Johanna; Gordon Zamora, Joshua
    In order to fulfill the requirements of the globalized society, people must be able to demonstrate the domain of different fields. In this regard, speaking English intelligibly plays a very relevant role. Even though the English educational plan proposed by Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Education suggests the implementation of the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), which establishes that lessons should consist of opportunities to communicate in the target language, some elements of the language have not been explicitly included in the syllabus. One of these elements is pronunciation. The lack of training programs and specific material designed for pronunciation instruction has been a main obstacle for the inclusion of this subskill in public high schools. Based on this necessity is that the general objective of this quasi-experimental investigation was to determine to which extent the Multistage Frame Technique enhances the students’ pronunciation of Standard American English vowel sounds in group10-1A at Canaán High School in Rivas. This study was conducted with a sample population of 12 students whose ages ranged from 15 to 17 years old. Participants took a pretest, and after this, researchers implemented the Multistage Frame Technique, which is a pronunciation instruction method. After the treatment, the participants took a posttest. Results evidenced that this technique improved the students’ level of performance, and that participants show difficulty with some specific Standard American English vowels.