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Web-Based Intonation Training Helps Improve ESL and EFL Chinese Students' Oral Speech
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Jiang, Yan; Chun, Dorothy – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This paper examines whether a web-based training on English discourse intonation leads to better spontaneous speech quality for Mandarin Chinese speakers who reside in the U.S. and in China. The four-week fully online training consisted of meta-instruction videos as well as listening and speaking activities, including instant visual pitch contour…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Facilitating Pre-Service Language Teachers' Intercultural Learning via Voice-Based Telecollaboration: The Role of Discussion Questions
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Sardegna, Veronica G.; Dugartsyrenova, Vera A. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
This study examined the online exchanges of 28 pre-service foreign language teachers (14 in Russia, 14 in the US) as they discussed in English their opinions about cultural products, practices, and perspectives, and their study abroad experiences via voice-based telecollaboration. Informed by intercultural competence frameworks, a qualitative…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning