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Direct linkDerwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J.; Foote, Jennifer A.; Waugh, Erin; Fleming, Jason – Language Learning, 2014
We present the outcomes of a pronunciation training program conducted in a workplace setting with second language speakers who had lived in an English-speaking environment for an average of 19 years. The research questions concerned whether improvement would occur in the learners' perception of certain segments and prosody; in the…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Workplace Learning, Language Tests
Peer reviewedKleinmann, Howard H. – Language Learning, 1977
A study was designed to ascertain whether syntactic avoidance behavior could be demonstrated for two groups of ESL learners (native speakers of Arabic and of Spanish and Portuguese) in accordance with contrastive analysis difficulty predictions. An avoidance pattern was found in accordance with such predictions. (CHK)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
