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Baills, Florence; Zhang, Yuan; Cheng, Yuhui; Bu, Yuran; Prieto, Pilar – Language Learning, 2021
The present study explored whether listening to songs and singing can improve second language pronunciation and vocabulary learning at beginning stages of language acquisition. One hundred and eight Chinese students underwent a 4-min training session to learn 14 words from a meaningful French song about the parts of the body in either one of two…
Descriptors: Singing, Instructional Effectiveness, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Bassetti, Bene; Mairano, Paolo; Masterson, Jackie; Cerni, Tania – Language Learning, 2020
Orthographic forms (spellings) can affect pronunciation in a second language (L2); however, it is not known whether the same orthographic form can affect both L2 pronunciation and metalinguistic awareness. To test this, we asked 260 speakers of English--first-language (L1) English speakers, L1 Italian and L2 English sequential bilinguals, and L1…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonological Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction