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Mahmood Yenkimaleki; Vincent J. van Heuven; Mostafa Hosseini – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
The present study examines the effect of feedback (FB) and feedforward (FF) in prosody instruction for developing listening comprehension skills in the nonnative language by interpreter trainees, using a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest design. Three groups of 25 interpreter trainees at Bu-Ali Sina University in Iran took part in the study, all…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Suprasegmentals, Listening Comprehension, Listening Skills
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Li, Linghong; Valcke, Martin; Dessein, Bart; Badan, Linda; Anderl, Christoph – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
The increasing attention on Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) pronunciation instruction gives us an opportunity to look into the current directions of teaching CFL and the specific instructional pronunciation strategies employed by CFL teachers. This paper offers a review of empirical evidence on the use and impact of instructional pronunciation…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Pronunciation Instruction, Suprasegmentals
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Saalfeld, Anita K. – Foreign Language Annals, 2012
The present study investigated the effects of training on the perception of Spanish stress, an important feature in the Spanish verbal morphology system. Participants were two intact classes of native English speakers enrolled in a six-week session of second-semester Spanish, as well as native English and native Spanish control groups. During the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Control Groups
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Cernyak, Susan E.; Reimer, Robert C. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
In lieu of language lab attendance, second-year language students had the option of attending a drama lab. This program has met with great success. The objective of the lab is to improve skills in pronunciation, intonation, and stress patterns. Also, an environment is created in which the student feels at home with the target language. (PJM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dramatic Play, Intonation, Language Usage
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Morin, Regina – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
This article discusses reasons for explicit pronunciation instruction, despite the continued neglect of this area in the communicative classroom. "ACTFL/NCATE Program Standards for the Preparation of Foreign Language Teachers (2002)" and "Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century" (National Standards, 1999) dictate that teachers…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Phonetics, Suprasegmentals
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Scanlan, Timothy – Foreign Language Annals, 1987
Reviews the different categories of native pauses and describes techniques for incorporating them cautiously into the spoken French of anglophones (especially Americans), suggesting that proper pause behavior is actually a definite mark of authentic sounding and well-controlled speech. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Language Fluency
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Byrnes, Heidi – Foreign Language Annals, 1987
Advocates a "process" viewpoint of language use for second language proficiency testing and explores its potential for greater insights from five perspectives: text linguistics and discourse analysis; interlanguage; expectancy; negotiation and interaction; and communication strategies. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Interlanguage, Language Proficiency