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Direct linkMichael D. Carey; Stefan Szocs – Language Testing, 2024
This controlled experimental study investigated the interaction of variables associated with rating the pronunciation component of high-stakes English-language-speaking tests such as IELTS and TOEFL iBT. One hundred experienced raters who were all either familiar or unfamiliar with Brazilian-accented English or Papua New Guinean Tok Pisin-accented…
Descriptors: Dialects, Pronunciation, Suprasegmentals, Familiarity
Silvia Kunitz – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This paper adopts an ethnomethodological, conversation analytic approach to analyze the social organization of the instruction-giving sequences that were accomplished by a teacher of Italian as a foreign language during the last phase of a writing task conducted in pairs. Specifically, the paper explores the linguistic, prosodic and embodied…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis
Xi, Xiaotong; Li, Peng; Baills, Florence; Prieto, Pilar – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Research has shown that observing hand gestures mimicking pitch movements or rhythmic patterns can improve the learning of second language (L2) suprasegmental features. However, less is known about the effects of hand gestures on the learning of novel phonemic contrasts. This study examines (a) whether hand gestures mimicking phonetic…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Language Rhythm
Baills, Florence; Suárez-González, Nerea; González-Fuente, Santiago; Prieto, Pilar – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
This study investigates the perception and production of a specific type of metaphoric gesture that mimics melody in speech, also called "pitch gesture," in the learning of L2 suprasegmental features. In a between-subjects design, a total of 106 participants with no previous knowledge of Chinese were asked to observe (Experiment 1) and…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phonology
Turco, Giuseppina; Dimroth, Christine; Braun, Bettina – Second Language Research, 2015
We investigated the second language (L2) acquisition of pragmatic categories that are not as consistently and frequently encoded in the L2 than in the first language (L1). Experiment 1 showed that Italian speakers linguistically highlighted affirmative polarity contrast (e.g. "The child ate the candies" following after "The child…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Italian
Download full textGokgoz Kurt, Burcu; Medlin, Julie; Tessarolo, Ashley – Online Submission, 2014
Considering the contradictory research on explicit teaching of suprasegmentals, the present study aims to investigate the effects of explicit instruction of L2 English learners' perception of prosodically ambiguous intonation patterns, as well as the possible effects of reported musical familiarity on intonation acquisition. A control group and a…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Language Patterns
