Expert profile: Michael Carey

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Description: Speech technology experience Jan 1999 recently. Research
 assistant - administering various speech perception experiments for:
 Dr. Sallyann Palethorpe/Prof. Jonathan Harrington, and Dr Robert
 Mannell. Aug 1998 - Dec 98. Duties: Research assistant - NEC vocoder
 experiment. Segmenting speech data and assembling a speech database.
 Participating in a speech perception experiment that assessed the
 cognitive load experienced when listening to vocoded telephone speech
 with various degrees of delay and quantisation. Jul 1998 - Jan 1999.
 Research assistant - The Australian Voices Project Duties: To travel
 around outback NSW and record speech data from Australian high school
 students for a project which tests hypotheses concerning regional and
 social difference in the Australian accent. Jul 1996- Sep 1996.
 Research assistant, SHLRC, Macquarie University Duties: Hand editing
 phonemic script in the Australian National Database of Spoken Language
 (ANDOSL) lexicon. Professional experience: I have been a teacher of
 English language for 9 years. I have also taught in various high
 schools as an English and Drama teacher. Over the past 5 years I have
 developed considerable expertise in the area of English pronunciation
 teaching. This has developed from applying the theoretical knowledge I
 have gained through my studies to classroom practice. For the past 3
 years I have worked as an English language teacher with NCELTR/ELS at
 Macquarie University and have run pronunciation workshops for
 NCELTR/EAP. Over the period of my candidature I have developed other
 skills in the related area of computer mediated learning. In 1997 I
 started an Ecommerce-enabled business www.correctme.com which provides
 a proofreading service to international students. I have also set up a
 pronunciation interest group bulletin board on the NCELTR server for
 which I am the administrator. Currently I am in the process of setting
 up a unit on WebCT for my pronunciation workshop students to give them
 access to extra support and practice outside their workshop hours.
 Publications Interlanguage vowel quality error is L1-specific,
 idiosyncratic and transitional. Conference paper presented at ALI
 2000, Melbourne, July 2000 and forthcoming journal article. I am the
 sole author and the journal is refereed. But is it interactive and
 does it work? A review of some CALL English pronunciation CD-ROMs
 Proceedings of the 10th World Conference On Educational Multimedia and
 Hypermedia. AACE ED-MEDIA and ED-TELECOM. Conference paper presented
 in Freiburg, Germany, June 1998. I was the sole author and it was not
 refereed.