Prof. Nobuaki Minematsu and Takuya Kunihara (M2 at that time), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, recieved Best Paper Award of 2023

On 8th August 2023, Professor Nobuaki Minematsu, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, and Takuya Kunihara (M2 at that time), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, recieved best paper award of 2023 at the Japan Association for Language Education and Technology.

Best Paper Award of 2023

The award is presented to an outstanding paper (single-authored or co-authored) by an individual member of the Society, published in the Society's journal (Language Education & Technology).

About awarded research
"Effects of English Shadowing Training Using Unlearned Passages on Listening and Speaking Skills."
Noriko NAKANISHI, Nobuaki MINEMATSU, Takuya KUNIHARA

Your impression & future plan
Minematsu lab. has been developing a unique technical framework to measure language learners' listening disfluency and pronunciation deviations as sequential data, and we are happy to have received the best paper award of 2023 from The Japan Association for Language Education & Technology. The proposed framework is the world first pedagogically-sound method to measure listening disfluency without using brain sensing techniques. Special Training for English Academic Communication (STEAC), which is an English class to improve leaners' oral proficiency and has started in 2023 at School of Engineering, takes full advantage of the research results of this paper.