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Ron I. Thomson; Tracey M. Derwing; Murray J. Munro – Language Awareness, 2024
We examined the naturalistic pronunciation development of two groups of L2 speakers over 10 years. Initially, 50 beginner ESL students participated in production tasks; despite attrition, the tasks were administered eight more times. Here we report listener judgements of accentedness, comprehensibility and fluency for the remaining six Mandarin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Mandarin Chinese
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Di Liu; Alison McGregor; Beth Zielinski; Marnie Reed; Colleen Meyers – Language Awareness, 2025
The present study investigated six experienced English as a second language (ESL) teachers' metalinguistic knowledge of the English intonation system through analysis of their metalanguage. Participants' metalanguage related to intonation was collected while completing three tasks: (1) a semi-structured interview, (2) a simulated teaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Intonation
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YiHsuan Wood; Jeffrey J. Green; Ellen Knell; Yu Liu – Language Awareness, 2025
This study used eye-tracking to investigate the real-time processing of phonetic and semantic radicals (components of Chinese characters that give clues to their pronunciation and meaning) by intermediate-level university Chinese foreign language (CFL) learners. Additionally, the study examined how knowledge and awareness of radicals affect…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction