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The Effects of Processing Instruction on the Acquisition and Processing of Grammatical Gender in German
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Nick Henry – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study investigates the effects of Processing Instruction (PI) on the acquisition of grammatical gender and gender-marked pronouns in German. PI was compared to Traditional Instruction, i.e. a traditional, vocabulary-oriented approach using color cues (TI) and a Categorization and Memorization task (CM). The results of an immediate posttest…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German
Language-Dependent Cue Weighting in Distinctive Feature: Evidence from the Perception of Mandarin High Vowels by Native English Speakers
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Zhu, Wenhui; Lee, Sun-Hee; Zhang, Xinting – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
This study investigates the perception of the three Mandarin high vowels /i, u, y/ after dental, retroflex, and palatal fricatives and affricates (/s/-/[voiceless alveolar affricate]/-/[voiceless alveolar affricate][superscript voiceless glottal fricative]/; /[voiceless retroflex sibilant fricative]/-/[voiceless alveolar affricate]/-/[voiceless…
Descriptors: Vowels, Mandarin Chinese, English, Native Speakers
Potential L1 Transfer Effects in Explicit and Implicit Knowledge of Articles in L2 English
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Myeong Hyeon Kim; Tania Ionin – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study investigates how L1-Korean L2-English learners perform with regard to articles in both explicit and implicit tasks. It also examines the role of L1-transfer from Korean demonstratives to English definites in L2 article production. 21 native English speakers and 27 adult intermediate L1-Korean L2-English learners were tested. The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Speakers
Recasts during Mobile-Mediated Audio and Video Interactions: Learners' Responses, Their Interpretations, and the Development of English Articles
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Rassaei, Ehsan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The study reported here investigated the effects of recasts on L2 development in terms of promoting EFL learners' accuracy in using English articles during mobile-mediated audio and video interactions. Fifty-two Iranian EFL learners were randomly assigned into two audio and video recasts conditions as well as two audio and video control groups.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Video Technology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
English and Nepali Monophthongs: A Comparison.
Giri, Ram Ashish – 1987
British English and Nepali monophthongs (pure vowels) are analyzed and compared in terms of their distinctive features, and pedagogical implications for Nepali learners of English as a Second Language are discussed. First, the two vowel systems are outlined and described in terms of eight distinctive features: vowel height, backness, lip rounding,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language)
English Spanish Contrasts. A Guide for Teachers.
Orozco, Cecilio – 1983
A guide for using language contrasts to understand and teach pronunciation differences in English and Spanish proposes that all languages are learned in basically the same order, phonetics (listening and speaking) and graphemics (reading and writing). Language can be broken down so that understandable elements (phonology, morphology, syntax, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)