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He Sun; Adam Roberts; Jessica Tan; Jieying Leh; Yvonne Cui Yun Moh – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
Nonverbal sound effects, such as background music and sound enhancements, have been widely used in children's eBooks; however, the impact of these effects on children's language learning remains inconclusive. This study examined Mandarin-English bilingual children's attention on sound-enhanced words during static eBook viewing. Fifty-seven 4-5…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Electronic Books, Production Techniques
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Henderson, Alice J.; Skarnitzl, Radek – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
This paper presents the results of a brief mixed-methods intervention which sought to modify the production of prominence-related features in L2 English by four native French-speaking university lecturers, in read-aloud speech. Selected parts of participants' productions were acoustically modified and then used as the model in a Listen-and-Repeat…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Models, Native Language, French