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Direct linkMcCafferty, Steven G. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2006
This study investigated the use of beat gestures (typically the sharp up-and-down movement of the hand) in conjunction with L2 speech production. The L2 participant, although in conversation with another person, synchronized his beats with the parsing of his words into syllables. Based on Gal' perin's formulation for the process of…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Syllables, Language Rhythm, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedScanlan, 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
