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Developing Second Language Mandarin Fluency through Pedagogic Intervention and Study Abroad: Planning Time, Speech Rate, and Response Duration

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Jiayi Wang; Nicola Halenko – Language Learning, 2024

This longitudinal study examines the effects of a pre-study abroad (SA) pedagogic intervention and subsequent SA experience on second language (L2) Mandarin fluency. It explores two temporal aspects of oral fluency--planning time and speech rate--along with one performance measure, duration of response. Additionally, L2 contact data were included…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning

On the Acquisition of Second Language Timing Patterns.

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Fourakis, Marios; Iverson, Gregory K. – Language Learning, 1985

Presents the results of an experiment which examined the temporal characteristics of voiceless plosives in American English, Arabic, and Arabic-accented English. Results showed that Arabic-accented English departed from the target language goal and constituted an articulation type characterizable as more Arabic than Arabic itself. (Author/SED)

Descriptors: Arabic, Articulation (Speech), Consonants, English (Second Language)