Takuya Kunihara (M2, at the time of presentation), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received Encouragement Award

On 7th December 2022, Takuya Kunihara (M2, at the time of presentation), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received Encouragement Award of the Regular Meetings of Speech Committee.

About awarded research

Shadowing-based multi-faceted assessment of language learners’ ability of production and perception of English speech

Takuya Kunihara, Chuanbo Zhu, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi

Your impression & future plan

This study showed good possibility of quantifying various aspects of L2 speech communication such as pronunciation, listening, and internalization at the same time by analyzing shadowing utterances. The presentation was made about a year ago and I’m very happy that it was highly evaluated.