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Cibelli, Emily – Second Language Research, 2022
Non-native phoneme perception can be challenging for adult learners. This article explores two routes to strengthening early representations of non-native targets: perceptual training, which focuses on auditory discrimination of novel contrasts, and articulatory training, which highlights the articulatory gestures of non-native categories. Of…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Auditory Perception, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Andrea A. Takahesu Tabori – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this dissertation, I investigated how cognitive resources as well as formal, and informal language experience impact language learning in two studies. In the first study (Chapter 2), I examined the learning of Spanish grammatical gender by Chinese international students who were studying abroad in the US. The goal of that study was to uncover…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Spanish