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has improved students’ participation Objectives
in class. On the other hand, Sharma The objectives of this research were:
(2014) statistically shows that teaching
has improved and the improvement 1. To study the effect of text-to-
can be quantified in percentile terms as speech software on the reading
4% every quarterly cycle, in comparison skill of the poor English
to the earlier rounds of field evaluation readers of a Bengali
conducted. So, the effectiveness of medium school.
K-YAN is quite evident. 2. To study the effect of

Dutta and Bala (2012) evaluates teaching text-to-speech software on the
of English at primary level. In it, they confidence, fluency and
point out that the textbooks at level 1 pronunciation of the poor
that is classes I and II are not focused on English readers of a Bengali
listening and speaking skills and that is medium school.
why they do not build familiarity with the
language. These books also do not link Methodology
a child's life at school to its life outside The methodology of study comprises
the school. Therefore these books sample, population, tool, instrument,
fail to build an emotional attachment method of research, procedure of data
of the child with the language. The collection and the procedure of data
same research also points out that the analysis.
present curriculum does not offers any
opportunity to the children to listen to Sample
the language or speak the language.
For this study we have used a purposive
The study conducted by Bione et al. sampling strategy. The sample of the
(2017) evaluates the voice quality of a study consists of 60 students of class
TTS system in comparison with a human VIII of a government sponsored Bengali
voice and examines its pedagogical medium high school. A diagnostic
potential for use in English as a foreign reading test was conducted to ensure
language (EFL) setting. Their findings that all the selected learners are poor
suggest that TTS systems are ready for at reading English. This school was
pedagogy because it has already proved selected because it has already been
its efficacy. Another study by Meihami provided with K-YAN projectors by the
& Husseini (2012) concludes that word government.
stress and word intonation aspects
of reading benefited most from using Population
TTS in the classroom. Use of TTS in the
classroom also improved the fluency of The population of the study shall include
the learners. So this study also confirms all the current students of class VIII of
the positive effect of text-to-speech Bengali medium government schools.
software. All these studies indicate
effectiveness of text-to-speech software
in language teaching scenarios.

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