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Kilpatrick, Cynthia D.; Pierce, Lori McLain – Foreign Language Annals, 2014
It is well established that learners transfer sounds from their first to their second language when speaking (see Major, 2008, and references therein). Recent work also indicates that learners may transfer their perception of sounds from the first to the second language. In some cases, errors in production and perception are explicitly corrected…
Descriptors: Spanish, Phonemes, Transfer of Training, Auditory Perception
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Frantzen, Diana – Foreign Language Annals, 1998
Identifies and discusses ten factors that contribute to the difficulties that language learners may have in dealing with false cognates. Provides suggestions for minimizing confusion. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Classroom Techniques, Dictionaries, Difficulty Level
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Gregersen, Tammy S. – Foreign Language Annals, 2003
Examined reactions of anxious and nonanxious foreign language learners to their own errors. Native Spanish speaking students were videotaped as they took part in an English conversation with the researcher and as they watched themselves in the taped interview. Analysis of participants' English interactions and responses to their performances…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Apprehension, English (Second Language), Error Patterns