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Silva Valencia, Juan Carlos – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2022
This paper analyzes a few significant differences between Spanish and English in relation to phonological patterns. First, a short introduction is given about these two languages, and it is briefly explained in what linguistic aspects they are similar or different. Then, each of these linguistic features is analyzed in detail, clearly establishing…
Descriptors: Spanish, English, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Patterns
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Gilbert, Judy B. – TESOL Journal, 2019
Classroom time is limited, so the priority question in teaching pronunciation is to find an effective sequence of presentation. This article recounts one teacher's path to learning about different approaches to teaching English rhythm and why it is important. For many years, a common way of distinguishing languages has been based on the assumption…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods
Paul Dion Grosse – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Within the field of linguistics, whether considering language contact situations (Weinreich, 1979) or foreign language education (Lado, 1957), the topic of language transfer, especially as it relates to pronunciation, has always been an item of particular interest. While research on such transfer has mostly focused on various phenomena of the L1…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transfer of Training
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Adriano Delego – English Teaching Forum, 2025
When it comes to learning an additional language, it is important that teachers prepare students to communicate with different speakers, respecting and understanding the different English-accented speeches around the world. This article helps English teachers from different parts of the world embrace language variation in their lessons,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phonetics, Phonology, English Instruction
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Playsted, Skye; Burri, Michael – English Australia Journal, 2021
The development of effective oral communication skills is a high priority for beginner-level, adult English language learners, and clear pronunciation is an essential part of this development. The perception and production of English vowel sounds can be a particularly challenging area of pronunciation for beginner-level learners. If adult learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Communication Skills, Vowels
Neumann, Farrah – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The acquisition of a sound system is an integral component of second language (L2) communication, yet it is one of the most difficult skills to teach and is therefore largely ignored in L2 classrooms (Derwing, 2010). In laboratory settings, phonetic training studies have typically examined syllables, rather than words, with no referential meaning.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Phonology, Pronunciation, Phonetics
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Stratton, James M. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2023
In a recent study, English-speaking L2 learners of German who received explicit instruction made significantly greater improvements in pronunciation and vocabulary than learners who received implicit instruction. Against the backdrop of this work, the present study reports learner preferences and perceptions about implicit and explicit language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Preferences, German
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Kapperman, Gaylen; Kelly, Stacy M.; LeRette-Kauffman, Heidi – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2021
There is a critical need for Americans to study foreign languages to support the United States' participation in a global economy, commitment to national security, and actions in the political arena. However, there is a lack of American students learning what the US Department of State refers to as "critical languages," which are less…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Instruction, Visual Impairments, Blindness
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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
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Robin E. Harvey; Patricia J. Brooks – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Children learning Chinese must cope with an opaque orthography lacking transparent relations between oral pronunciations and written characters: a challenge heightened for L2 learners. Use of digital Pinyin input may facilitate connections between oral and written language by allowing learners to access vocabulary they cannot yet write. We…
Descriptors: Written Language, Chinese, Language Arts, Grade 4
Maaly Al Omary – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Arabic emphasis refers to the production of consonants resulting from a primary constriction in the dental or alveolar region and a secondary constriction in the back of the vocal tract, recognized as 'Emphatic.' These have contrastive consonants produced in the dental or alveolar region, recognized as 'Plain.' The existing research on emphasis in…
Descriptors: Arabic, Phonemes, Pronunciation, Speech Communication
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Olson, Daniel J. – Second Language Research, 2022
Featural approaches to second language phonetic acquisition posit that the development of new phonetic norms relies on sub-phonemic features, expressed through a constellation of articulatory gestures and their corresponding acoustic cues, which may be shared across multiple phonemes. Within featural approaches, largely supported by research in…
Descriptors: Cues, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phonetics
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Wiener, Seth; Chan, Marjorie K. M.; Ito, Kiwako – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This study examines the putative benefits of explicit phonetic instruction, high variability phonetic training, and their effects on adult nonnative speakers' Mandarin tone productions. Monolingual first language (L1) English speakers (n = 80), intermediate second language (L2) Mandarin learners (n = 40), and L1 Mandarin speakers (n = 40) took…
Descriptors: Phonetics, English, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages
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Youran Lin; Fangfang Li; Karen E. Pollock – Cogent Education, 2024
Despite an increasing interest in pronunciation instruction in English as a majority language or international "lingua franca," less is known about pronunciation learning in non-English minority languages, especially among child learners. Bilingual education programs provide a unique context to address this research gap, as they involve…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary School Teachers
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Kearns, Devin M.; Whaley, Victoria M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2019
Learning to read English is more difficult than in most other alphabetic languages. It sometimes seems there are not reliable rules for linking letters with sounds. Teaching students all of the letter patterns they may find in texts is no simple task. Students struggle processing the sounds in words, so even words with simple spellings are…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Skills, Spelling, Memory
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