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Man-Ni Chu; Ewa Zajdler; Hui-Wen Lin – AILA Review, 2023
This study considers the performance of tone pronunciation and morpheme intelligibility by L2 Polish Mandarin learners. A mixed-effects ordinal regression model and Tukey's HSD multiple test were used to examine the start-point, end-point, of syllables as a means of assessing their intelligibility by L2 Polish learners regarding the tones with the…
Descriptors: Polish, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Speech Communication
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Henderson, Alice J.; Skarnitzl, Radek – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
This paper presents the results of a brief mixed-methods intervention which sought to modify the production of prominence-related features in L2 English by four native French-speaking university lecturers, in read-aloud speech. Selected parts of participants' productions were acoustically modified and then used as the model in a Listen-and-Repeat…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Models, Native Language, French
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Sung, Ko-Yin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study investigated the oral reading strategy use of 51 first-grade readers in a Chinese Dual-Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) programme. It attempted to answer the following research questions: (1) What reading strategies do first-grade Mandarin Chinese DLBE learners employ to decode Chinese text during oral reading? (2) Do the first-grade…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Farah, Rida; Choe, Mun-Hong – English Teaching, 2022
This study investigated the extent to which explicit and implicit instruction improve L1-Arabic speakers' articulation of English words whose cognates were acquired earlier in their L2 French. Sixty-eight secondary school students, explicit (n=35) and implicit (n=33), participated in a programme incorporating focus-on-pronunciation activities,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yeldham, Michael; Choy, Vincent – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
The main purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness for L2 English learners of a new direct approach to segmental pronunciation instruction that combined articulatory instruction with abdominal enhancement techniques. The participants were Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong, where the school curriculum relies chiefly on indirect…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kamali, Mojtaba; Behjat, Fatemeh; Bagheri, Mohammad Sadegh – Cogent Education, 2020
The current study investigated the influence of oral reproduction and summary writing vocabulary tasks on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' learning and retention of new foreign language (L2) words. To this end, 66 advanced EFL learners were randomly selected and assigned to two experimental and one control conditions. The participants…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zhao, Jing – ProQuest LLC, 2019
There have been sweeping changes in foreign language education in the United States. As the world is experiencing unprecedented globalization, knowledge of a foreign language and familiarity with other cultures have become increasingly important. Public schools are now implementing dual immersion programs to better prepare students for the…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Orthographic Symbols
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Butler, Yuko Goto – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
This study examines young English readers' ability to infer word meanings in context and to use metacognitive knowledge for constructing word meanings in relation to their reading performance. The participants were 61 fourth-grade students in the United States, comprising 24 monolingual English-speaking (ME) students and 37…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Elementary School Students
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Derman, Serdar; Bardakçi, Mehmet; Öztürk, Mustafa Serkan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
Suprasegmental features are essential in conveying meaning; however, they are one of the neglected topics in teaching Turkish as a foreign/second language. This paper aims to examine read speech by Arabic students learning Turkish as a second language and describe their read speech in terms of stress and pause. Within this framework, 34 Syrian…
Descriptors: Arabs, Turkish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tang, Shifang; Tong, Fuhui; Irby, Beverly J.; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Guerrero, Cindy – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
Using a low-inference observation instrument, we investigated the effect of an ongoing, intensive, and structured virtual professional development (VPD) based on the fidelity of implementation (FOI) across treatment and control conditions in a randomized controlled trial validation study implemented in 116-bilingual classrooms in seven Texas…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingual Education, Computer Simulation
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Mohammadi, Jahangir – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This paper is devoted to finding adequate answers to the following queries: (A) what are the segmental and syllabic pattern errors made by Kurdish students in their pronunciation? (B) Can the problematic areas in pronunciation be predicted by a systematic comparison of the sound systems of both native and target languages? (C) Can there be any…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation, Error Patterns