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The paper deals with a burning problem of today – the way how to integrate various Internet tools into regular classes in order to enhance all four key language skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. In particular, it touches upon such a crucial aspect for linguists as teaching pronunciation. Currently, students try to acquire various dialects and variants of a foreign language through such media as series, TV shows, and YouTube blogs and vlogs kept by popular influencers. For this reason, integrating Internet content into academic environment is considered to be an essential part of successful teaching. It is especially important in terms of pronunciation skills for all the cases mentioned above represent authentic articulatory and prosodic patterns. This research aims at highlighting major interactive tools for instance, Internet, video conferences, podcasts, speech recognition software, etc., and reviewing some fundamental concepts of foreign language teaching. The study focuses on different strategies to implement these techniques while mastering pronunciation of English and German: what to use and how to use them most effectively. In this context, the leading part is performed by YouTube as a dominant source of both information and entertainment. Some most remarkable YouTube channels as Tim’s Pronunciation Workshop, Learn English with Papa Teach Me, ETG English, Fröhlich Deutsch, Deutschlernen mit Flüchtlingen are discussed in detail. The presented questionnaire reveals students’ attitude towards YouTube as a means of acquiring knowledge and developing pronunciation skills as well as illustrates their awareness of interactive techniques’ benefits.
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Anisimova, O.V., Bobodzhanova, L.K., Kolobova, K.S., Makarova, I.S. (2020). Integration of Internet Tools to Enhance Pronunciation Skills: Effectiveness of Educational Content on YouTube. In: Anikina, Z. (eds) Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives. IEEHGIP 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47415-7_21
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