NativeAccent™
Improving Spoken English
What is NativeAccent?
New internet-delivered technology that
• assesses a student’s English pronunciation skills in
about 10 minutes
• Individually selected and organized instruction,
focused on building individual student skills which
are needed to quickly improve their
comprehensibility in English
• Adapted to learner’s gender and native language
What will students gain?
• Studies have demonstrated that learners can
increase their pronunciation skills significantly
through focused time-on-task practice speaking.
• NativeAccent case studies repeatedly show
significant gains* among learners who used
native accent for as few as 13 hours in addition to
classroom instruction when compared to those
who had only classroom instruction.
* Average increase in overall pronunciation skills in 13 hours of instruction of
26.45%, however gains in problematic sounds and skills are much higher.
How long will it take?
• Studies have shown that optimal results are
achieved by regular, spaced practice.
• Each Lesson is 15 minutes long
• Recommended - 30 minutes per day 4 days
per week to stay on track with the curriculum
plan
• Not recommended – 2 hours one day a week
Getting Started
• You will need an email account!
• You will receive a validation code via email
from your instructor that looks like this:
47655G79F2A4467F2E8DD964E42DFEAB
• Highlight and copy to your clipboard
• Go to the Native Accent Log-in page at
http://nativeaccent.carnegiespeech.com/
• Click “Create New Account”
Create Your New Account
• Fill out the form that looks like the one below,
pasting the validation code from your
clipboard and click “Create new account”
Check Your Email
• A validation link will be embedded in an email
sent to your registered email account
• Click on the link
Log into NativeAccent
http://nativeaccent.carnegiespeech.com
Select your class
Select “Assessment”
Give Flash permission
To access your microphone, and check the mike sound level. Make sure
that it is not registering in the red when you have the headset on and are
speaking normally
Go through the tutorial
Step-by-step
Important! Do not skip this step, as it is used to “tune” your headset and
volume levels.
Record yourself speaking the
sentences provided
When you are finished click the “SUBMIT” button
Select the Intelligent Tutor
from Topic Outline menu
The Intelligent Tutor is a software program that presents the lessons that
are most appropriate for each learner based on their Assessment.
Select the bookmarked lesson
NativeAccent always presents your with the bookmark to show where you should
begin your next session. If you are returning to an incomplete lesson the
bookmark will return you to the last screen that you worked on.
Articulation
Listen then record!
Do your best to copy the model speaker! Click PLAY to listen to yourself after
your record the sample.
Feedback
• The focus sound of the lesson will be color
coded Good, Close or Needs Improvement
• If your pronunciation is Good you will be
advanced to the next lesson
Feedback
If your pronunciation is Close or Needs Improvement you will
be presented with feedback which describes how to improve
Hint – click on the diagram for sample words that use the focus
sound correctly
Duration
Listen then record!
Try to match the model speaker’s duration of the phrase. This
exercise exaggerates the sounds of normal speech so that
students listen to the exaggerated sounds for contrast
Pitch
Listen then record!
LISTEN for the stress point in the word, phrase or sentence
RECORD your voice. See feedback and listen to your voice
IMPORTANT TIPS
• ALWAYS click “Submit” when you are leaving
the program. If you close the browser without
clicking Submit, your lesson will not be saved,
and you will not receive credit for time-ontask.
• If you are being unsuccessful with a sound,
move on to another section and ask your
instructor for help with that sound.
If You Need Tech Support
1. First ask your instructor or lab
supervisor for help
2. If they cannot help you, they will
contact the NativeAccent support team
to resolve your issue in a timely manner.