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Yazawa, Kakeru; Whang, James; Kondo, Mariko; Escudero, Paola – Second Language Research, 2020
This study examines relative weighting of two acoustic cues, vowel duration and spectra, in the perception of high front vowels by Japanese learners of English. Studies found that Japanese speakers rely heavily on duration to distinguish /i?/ and [character omitted] in American English (AmE) as influenced by phonemic length in Japanese /ii/ and…
Descriptors: Cues, Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Vowels
Grice, R. D. – Unicorn, Journal of the Australian College of Education, 1986
The nature of literacy associated with the widely used new medium of microcomputers has not been fully exploited by schools to foster development of literacy programs. Microcomputer applications need integration with classroom activities where students construct language meaning. (19 references) (CJH)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Simulation