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Hayes-Harb, Rachel; Barrios, Shannon – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
The Hindi consonant inventory, which includes the cross-linguistically rare retroflex place of articulation and four-way laryngeal contrasts, is known to pose difficulties for native English speakers. Hindi language textbooks address this challenge, in part, by providing various articulatory and acoustic descriptions of Hindi consonants, typically…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Indo European Languages, Phonemes
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Wheeler, Holly; Kang, Okim – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Listener background variables have been recognized as potential contributors to language evaluation bias. This continuum of trait-irrelevant factors creates implications from the L2 classroom to integration in the target language community. This study examined how L2 Spanish learners' listener background factors including ethnicity, heritage…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hayes-Harb, Rachel; Durham, Kristie – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Native English speakers experience difficulty acquiring Arabic emphatic consonants. Arabic language textbooks have suggested that learners focus on adjacent vowels for cues to these consonants; however, the utility of such a strategy has not been empirically tested. This study investigated the perception of Arabic emphatic-plain contrasts by means…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Semitic Languages, Accuracy, English
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Martin, Ines A.; Jackson, Carrie N. – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
The present study investigated the impact of pronunciation training on the learning and retention of second language (L2) grammatical structures. By drawing on the phonological saliency of stress placement in German separable- and inseparable-prefix verbs, the study explored whether enhancing explicit instruction through pronunciation training can…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Verbs
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Medina, Almitra; Gordon, Leslie – Foreign Language Annals, 2014
A nine-week empirical study of 25 adults in a second language (L2) Spanish phonetics course explored whether students' participation in service-learning language exchange sessions with native Spanish speakers outside of class influenced learners' (1) motivation for foreign language learning and (2) phonemic perception in Spanish. Divided…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phonetics
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Kilpatrick, Cynthia D.; Pierce, Lori McLain – Foreign Language Annals, 2014
It is well established that learners transfer sounds from their first to their second language when speaking (see Major, 2008, and references therein). Recent work also indicates that learners may transfer their perception of sounds from the first to the second language. In some cases, errors in production and perception are explicitly corrected…
Descriptors: Spanish, Phonemes, Transfer of Training, Auditory Perception
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Rose, Marda – Foreign Language Annals, 2012
Previous research has shown that first language (L1) American English speakers discriminate the Spanish /[alveolar tap]/-/r/ and /[alveolar tap]/-/t/ contrasts significantly better than the /[alveolar tap]/-/d/ contrast, regardless of their proficiency level in Spanish (Rose, 2010a). Therefore, the current study follows the framework of the…
Descriptors: North American English, Spanish, Language Proficiency, Guidelines