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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)
Which Is Worth More? From Non-Native Speakers' Perspective: British or American
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Aslan, Fehime – Journal of English as an International Language, 2021
The ownership of English has been hotly debated for a long time by researchers in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT). World Englishes expand the ownership of English from Inner Circle countries to Outer and Expanding Circle countries based on Kachru's (1985) Three Circle Model. In light of this, it can be claimed that World Englishes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Language Teachers
Roles of Collocation in L2 Oral Proficiency Revisited: Different Tasks, L1 vs. L2 Raters, and Cross-Sectional vs. Longitudinal Analyses
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Saito, Kazuya; Liu, Yuwei – Second Language Research, 2022
There is emerging evidence that collocation use plays a primary role in determining various dimensions of L2 oral proficiency assessment and development. The current study presents the results of three experiments which examined the relationship between the degree of association in collocation use (operationalized as t scores and mutual…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
How Does Longitudinal Interaction Promote Second Language Speech Learning? Roles of Learner Experience and Proficiency Levels
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Saito, Kazuya; Suzuki, Shungo; Oyama, Tomoko; Akiyama, Yuka – Second Language Research, 2021
This study examined how longitudinal interaction impacts the development of second language (L2) oral proficiency in relation to learners' different experience and proficiency levels. Japanese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) participated in weekly conversation exchanges with native speakers (NSs) in the USA via videoconferencing…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Effects of Listeners' Communicative Experiences in Thai English on the Intelligibility of Thai English
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Sangki Kim – English Teaching, 2017
Intelligibility of second language (L2) English has become an important goal in English pronunciation teaching. However, intelligibility research primarily focused on L2 English users and L2 production features; only a handful of studies have examined other effects on the intelligibility of L2 English. In line with the three-part model of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Syllable Frequency in Lexical Decision and Naming of English Words
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Macizo, Pedro; Van Petten, Cyma – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
The importance of phonological syllables in recognition and pronunciation of visual words has been demonstrated in languages with a high degree of spelling-sound correspondence. In Spanish, multisyllabic words with frequent first syllables are named more quickly than those with less frequent first syllables, but receive slower lexical decisions.…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Syllables, Word Recognition, Cognitive Processes