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Students’ autonomous learning of English pronunciation plays an important role in students’ acquisition of English pronunciation. This paper intends to demonstrate, through an empirical investigation, how the establishment of a pronunciation center can facilitate business English major students’ autonomous learning. The result shows that the implementation of the pronunciation center not only increases students’ interest and confidence in learning English pronunciation, but also promotes students’ self-reflection and enhances the interaction, negotiation and cooperation between teachers and students, which surely help the students achieve the sustainability of their autonomous learning of English pronunciation.
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This research was financially supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science (Grant No. 17NDJC033Z) and by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (Grant No. 17YJC740072).
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Ou, C., Zhao, K., Li, X., Jia, L. (2021). A Study on the Autonomous Learning Model of English Pronunciation for Business English Major Students. In: Pang, C., et al. Learning Technologies and Systems. SETE ICWL 2020 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12511. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66906-5_30
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