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Yoon, Kyuchul. “Using the Prosody Cloning Technique in Teaching English Prosody.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.1 (2011): 245-71. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the possibility of using the prosody cloning technique in teaching English prosody to university students. Eighty-six university students, twenty two in a control group and the other sixty four in the experimental group, participated in a prosody training experiment for a five and a half week period. For the study material of the experimental group, eight utterances whose prosody had been cloned after that of a native speaker of English were given while the control group was given the same set uttered by the same native speaker. The recordings both before and after the experiment were made. The results showed that the experimental group performed better in terms of the intonation contour and word durations. In the two listening tests, the scores of the experimental group were better than the control group. These findings appear to suggest that the use of prosody cloning technique is viable in teaching English prosody to university students. (Yeungnam University)