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Zoghbor, Wafa Shahada – English Language Teaching, 2016
Teachers' understanding of the process of speech perception could inform practice in listening classrooms. Catford (1950) developed a model for speech perception taking into account the influence of the acoustic features of the linguistic forms used by the speaker, whereby the listener "identifies" and "interprets" these…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Auditory Perception, Speech
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Liao, Baiqiu – English Language Teaching, 2013
Appropriacy is the paramount consideration of such an inherently polite speech act as thanking in its use. Traditional study of thanking focuses more on the quantitative investigation of its diverse forms and functions than on interpretation of the process in which it is used appropriately and adequately or not among English native or nonnative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Speech Acts, Statistical Analysis