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Shao, Yujie; Saito, Kazuya; Tierney, Adam – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
Growing evidence suggests that auditory processing ability may be a crucial determinant of language learning, including adult second language (L2) speech learning. The current study tested 47 Chinese English-as-a-Foreign-Language students to examine the extent to which two types of auditory processing, i.e., perceptual acuity and audio-motor…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Auditory Stimuli, Teaching Methods
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Mahmood Yenkimaleki; Vincent J. van Heuven – TESL-EJ, 2024
This study examines the effect of native "vs." non-native prosody instruction on developing interpreter trainees' speech comprehensibility in English as a foreign language (EFL) using a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest design. Twenty-three groups of 28 interpreter trainees at a University in Iran (six different branches) took part in…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zielinski, Beth W. – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008
In this study I investigate the impact of different characteristics of the L2 speech signal on the intelligibility of L2 speakers of English to native listeners. Three native listeners were observed and questioned as they orthographically transcribed utterances taken from connected conversational speech produced by three L2 speakers from different…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Syllables, Suprasegmentals, Mandarin Chinese