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Direct linkYao Lu; Ksenia Gnevsheva – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Previous research that explores the effect of ethnicity in the perception of speaker accentedness and personality traits often finds that Asian appearance contributes to a more accented and less competent impression. Importantly, most of the work done to date employed only Caucasian first language-speaking listeners; moreover, ethnicity and gender…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Gender Differences, Personality Traits, Korean
Download full textJohnson, Carol; Cardoso, Walcir; Zuercher, Beau; Brannen, Kathleen; Springer, Suzanne – Research-publishing.net, 2022
This study examined the use of a popular Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Google Voice Typing (GVT), to automatically assess English as second language pronunciation. It aimed to answer the following question: What is the relationship between GVT-rated scores and human-rated scores? To answer this question, we compared audio recordings of 56…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning
Gluhareva, Daria; Prieto, Pilar – Language Teaching Research, 2017
Recent research has shown that beat gestures (hand gestures that co-occur with speech in spontaneous discourse) are temporally integrated with prosodic prominence and that they help word memorization and discourse comprehension. However, little is known about the potential beneficial effects of beat gestures in second language (L2) pronunciation…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
McBride, Kara – Hispania, 2015
This study explores which features of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) pronunciation most impact raters' evaluations. Native Spanish speakers (NSSs) from regions with different pronunciation norms were polled: 147 evaluators from northern Mexico and 99 evaluators from central Argentina. These evaluations were contrasted with ratings from…
Descriptors: Spanish, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
Kennedy, Sara; Trofimovich, Pavel – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
By the end of their studies, non-native speakers of English studying at English-medium universities have had several years of exposure to English in that setting. Do non-native students, particularly those enrolled in non-language related programs, show different levels of second language (L2) speaking ability in their final semester of studies…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Seniors, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
Tominaga, Yuko – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2011
The objective of this research is to detect effective factors in English pronunciation teaching from the viewpoint of EIL (English as an International Language). This research is based on the data of the Successful Pronunciation Learners (SPL) selected by the raters, Japanese and native speakers of English (NSE), in Tominaga (2005). On the grounds…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Japanese, Native Speakers
