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Emanuel Bylund; Steven Samuel; Panos Athanasopoulos – Language Learning, 2024
Research has shown that speakers of different languages may differ in their cognitive and perceptual processing of reality. A common denominator of this line of investigation has been its reliance on the sensory domain of vision. The aim of our study was to extend the scope to a new sense-taste. Using as a starting point crosslinguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Classification, Language Processing
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Iizuka, Takehiro; Nakatsukasa, Kimi; Braver, Aaron – Language Learning, 2020
In this study, we examined the efficacy of gestures for the acquisition of L2 segmental phonology. Despite teachers' frequent use of gestures in the classroom to teach pronunciation, the field lacks empirical support for this practice. We attempted to fill this gap by investigating the effects of handclapping on the development of L2 Japanese…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Second Language Instruction, Phonology, Pronunciation