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Thanachporn Varapongsittikul; Sujinat Jitwiriyanont – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study aims to investigate the VOT values of English wordinitial plosive consonants produced by young Thai learners to understand current trends in English pronunciation among Thai speakers and its future direction. The study analyzes how phonological mismatches between Thai and English affect the pronunciation of Thai learners, using a speech…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Thai, Native Language, Second Language Instruction
Elina Banzina – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Persuasiveness in oral communication in English can be expressed with various vocal phonetic cues that may not be readily accessible to English second language (L2) learners whose native language may employ a different set of cues. With a goal to increase L2 learners' perceived spoken confidence and persuasiveness, and obtain empirical evidence…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Li, Peng; Baills, Florence; Baqué, Lorraine; Prieto, Pilar – Second Language Research, 2023
This study explores the effects of embodied prosodic training on the production of non-native French front rounded vowels (i.e. /y, ø, oe/) and the overall pronunciation proficiency. Fifty-seven Catalan learners of French practiced pronunciation in one of two conditions: one group observed hand gestures embodying prosodic features of the sentences…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Speech Communication
Uchihara, Takumi; Webb, Stuart; Saito, Kazuya; Trofimovich, Pavel – Language Learning, 2023
The current study investigated the effects of repetition on the learning of second language (L2) spoken word forms. Japanese university students learning L2 English were randomly assigned to one of three treatment conditions (one, three, and six exposures) and learned 40 words while hearing them and viewing their corresponding pictures. A…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Intelligibility, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Suntornsawet, Jirada – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2022
The expansion of the English language produced by non-native speakers has, in recent decades, been discussed by applied linguists from various theoretical perspectives. The discussion has highlighted evidence showing that the multiplicity and diversity of English uses have given rise to an acceleration in the rate of inter-variety contacts where…
Descriptors: Thai, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kevin R. Hirschi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Millions engage in learning a Second Language (L2) using their mobile devices with a wide range of success. Concomitantly, there exists a growing interest in research on the effects of mobile-assisted language learning and predictors of learner outcomes (e.g., Loewen et al., 2020; Sudina & Plonsky, 2023). However, few of these apps and studies…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Immonen, Katja; Peltola, Kimmo U.; Tamminen, Henna; Alku, Paavo; Peltola, Maija S. – Second Language Research, 2023
Children are known to be fast learners due to their neural plasticity. Learning a non-native language (L2) requires the mastering of new production patterns. In classroom settings, learners are not only exposed to the acoustic input, but also to the unfamiliar grapheme-phoneme correspondences of the L2 orthography. We tested how 9-10-year-old…
Descriptors: Written Language, Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Linguistic Input
Ye-Jee Jung – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation explores clear speech which is defined as a specific speaking style people adopt when fluent communication could be compromised for various reasons. Although acoustic properties and their perceptual benefits of clear speech produced by monolingual speakers of English are well documented, there has only been a small body of past…
Descriptors: Korean, Dialects, Pronunciation, English (Second Language)
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
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
Jiang, Yan; Chun, Dorothy – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This paper examines whether a web-based training on English discourse intonation leads to better spontaneous speech quality for Mandarin Chinese speakers who reside in the U.S. and in China. The four-week fully online training consisted of meta-instruction videos as well as listening and speaking activities, including instant visual pitch contour…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Suzukida, Yui; Saito, Kazuya – Language Teaching Research, 2021
Building up on Munro and Derwing, the current study set out to re-examine and generalize the Functional Load (FL) principle (Brown, 1988) as a tool to identify a set of relatively crucial segmental features for successful understanding in L2 communication. In Experiment 1, 40 Japanese learners of English in English-as-Foreign-Language settings…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension
Jaiprasong, Sawaros; Pongpairoj, Nattama – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
This research was aimed at investigating L1 Thai learners' English word stress production in two aspects of English words -- 1) English words with different suffixes: suffixes affecting stress shift, i.e. '-ic' (e.g. 'fantástic'), '-ity' (e.g. 'idéntity') and '-tion / -sion' (e.g. 'eléction') and suffixes demanding stress, i.e. '-oon' (e.g.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Thai
Arkadiusz Rojczyk; Pavel Sturm; Joanna Przedlacka – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Phonetic imitation is a ubiquitous process in speech production. Speakers have a strong tendency to imitate their interlocutors both in a native and a non-native language. It is especially important in acquiring non-native speech, because it allows forming new sound categories. In the current study we investigated whether and to what extent Polish…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonemes, Language Variation, Polish
Ying Li – Language Learning and Development, 2024
While phonetic training in laboratory settings has been shown to be helpful for second language (L2) sounds learning in prior studies , it is still open to debate whether a perception- or a production-based approach can better help adults learn L2 sounds in classroom settings. This study aimed to fill this knowledge gap. The participants were…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Auditory Perception, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning