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Tool is now available to a significant number
of government sponsored Bengali
The tool for this study was a particular
text named ‘Midnight Express’ (Lesson medium schools.
11) which is an edited version of Alfred
Noyes’ famous short story of the same Method of Research
name and is included in the prescribed For this research, single group pre-
text book of class VIII, ‘Blossoms’. Beside test and post- test design was chosen.
this, a word list of disyllabic, trisyllabic This design has been chosen because
and tetrasyllabic words was prepared random assignment of participants
from the above mentioned text to into experimental and control groups
conduct the diagnostic pre-test and the was not possible to make. The first
post-test. step of quasi-experimental research
was to select learners who are poor at
Importance of K-YAN Projector for reading English. To select the sample
this study: of 60 learners a diagnostic reading test
was conducted to find out the learners
The K-YAN DLP Projector is an
indispensable device for our who are poor at reading English. Their
experiment. We have already mentioned performance was evaluated under three
it. ‘Balabolka’, a popular text-to-speech heads namely- Confidence; Fluency and
software was installed which is easily Pronunciation. All these three heads
available over the internet free of cost. had full marks of 5. According to their
It is a fact that we can install text-to performance, each student was given a
speech software on any computer, certain mark under each head. Then all
laptop or a smartphone. But, unlike these 60 students were given the text-
these devices K-YAN has an integrated to-speech reading treatment. After the
powerful speaker which delivers very completion of the treatment period a
clear and loud sound output which is post-test was conducted in the same
ideal for an over-crowded class. We have manner in which the pre-test was
used ‘Balabolka’ to machine read the conducted by a reading test and their
text we have selected before the sample performance was evaluated and the
students. K-YAN and the text-to-speech data of pre and post-test was compared.
software worked wonderfully together. The text-to-speech read along treatment
Even the backbenchers could listen to included machine reading of the text
the reading. Beside this the children along with chorus reading of the text by
could follow the text if they want on a big the sample learners. The text-to-speech
screen where the projector projected software used for this particular study
the text. However, the students were was ‘Balabolka’. It allows one to stop
instructed to follow their own text reading whenever we want. During the
closely and to underline the words that treatment the reading was stopped
they found difficult after each reading. after every single sentence and after
K-YAN has many advantages that make every polysyllabic word, so that the
it an ideal device for our text-to-speech students can repeat the same aloud.
aided reading classes. Beside this K-YAN The students were instructed to follow

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