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Jean-Marc Dewaele; Delphine Guedat-Bittighoffer; Elouise Botes; Marie-Ange Dat – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
This cross-sectional mixed methods study investigates how intense and authentic communication shapes learners' enjoyment (FLE), anxiety (FLCA), and boredom (FLCB) in class. Participants were 181 beginning English foreign language learners aged 11 in three secondary schools in France. Statistical analyses revealed that pupils in classes with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preadolescents, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Buckingham, Hugh W. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2006
One of the most fascinating and frustrating issues in the priority of discovery in science is over just who, for the first time, went on record in the public forum, either orally at a conference or through a published communication, proclaiming that the faculty of articulate human speech was located in the left, not the right, cortical hemisphere.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medicine, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Schwartz, Jean-Luc; Berthommier, Frederic; Savariaux, Christophe – Cognition, 2004
Lip reading is the ability to partially understand speech by looking at the speaker's lips. It improves the intelligibility of speech in noise when audio-visual perception is compared with audio-only perception. A recent set of experiments showed that seeing the speaker's lips also enhances "sensitivity" to acoustic information,…
Descriptors: Hearing (Physiology), Lipreading, Auditory Perception, Visual Perception