Improving fluency of young readers: introducing a Karaoke to learn how to breath during a Reading-while-Listening task

Erika Godde (1) , Gérard Bailly (1) , David Escudero (2) , Marie-Line Bosse (3) , Maryse Bianco (4) , Coriandre Emmanuel Vilain (5, 6)

1 GIPSA-CRISSP - GIPSA - Cognitive Robotics, Interactive Systems, & Speech Processing
2 Departamento de Informática [UVa Valladolid]
3 LPNC - Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition
4 LaRAC - Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Apprentissages en Contexte
5 GIPSA-Services - GIPSA-Services
6 GIPSA-PCMD - GIPSA - Perception, Contrôle, Multimodalité et Dynamiques de la parole

We evaluate here an original method for implicitly providing breathing guidance to young readers during a Reading-while-Listening task. Close-shadowing is supplemented by a Karaoke system that enlightens not only the word – as it is jointly spelled by the pre-recorded expert reader and the learner – but also the current and next breath groups. We compare here the impact of two enlightening conditions – i.e. word-only vs. word and breath group – on fluency and comprehension.

Mots clés: reading; reading-while-listening; breathing; fluency; children

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Psychologie; Linguistique

Erika Godde, Gérard Bailly, David Escudero, Marie-Line Bosse, Maryse Bianco, et al.. Improving fluency of young readers: introducing a Karaoke to learn how to breath during a Reading-while-Listening task. SLaTE 2017 - 7th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, Aug 2017, Stockholm, Sweden. pp.127-131, ⟨10.21437/SLaTE.2017-22⟩. ⟨hal-01575223⟩