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Ruth Swanwick; Samantha Goodchild; Elisabetta Adami – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This paper critically analyses the meaning and use of translanguaging as an inclusive pedagogical strategy in the context of a bilingual deaf education classroom where there are asymmetrical sensorial experiences of being deaf and being hearing, and different access to 'codified' (either speech or sign-language) resources. The pedagogical…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Teaching Methods, Bilingual Education, Deafness
Craig Thorburn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Language learners need to map a continuous, multidimensional acoustic signal to discrete abstract speech categories. The complexity of this mapping poses a difficult learning problem, particularly for second language learners who struggle to acquire the speech sounds of a non-native language, and almost never reach native-like ability. A common…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Games, Acoustics
Maaly Al Omary – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Arabic emphasis refers to the production of consonants resulting from a primary constriction in the dental or alveolar region and a secondary constriction in the back of the vocal tract, recognized as 'Emphatic.' These have contrastive consonants produced in the dental or alveolar region, recognized as 'Plain.' The existing research on emphasis in…
Descriptors: Arabic, Phonemes, Pronunciation, Speech Communication
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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
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Olson, Daniel J. – Second Language Research, 2022
Featural approaches to second language phonetic acquisition posit that the development of new phonetic norms relies on sub-phonemic features, expressed through a constellation of articulatory gestures and their corresponding acoustic cues, which may be shared across multiple phonemes. Within featural approaches, largely supported by research in…
Descriptors: Cues, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phonetics
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Hardison, Debra M.; Pennington, Martha C. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This article reviews research findings involving visual input in speech processing in the form of facial cues and co-speech gestures for second-language (L2) learners, and provides pedagogical implications for the teaching of listening and speaking. It traces the foundations of auditory-visual speech research and explores the role of a speaker's…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Cues
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Wiener, Seth; Bradley, Evan D. – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Lexical tone languages like Mandarin Chinese require listeners to discriminate among different pitch patterns. A syllable spoken with a rising pitch (e.g. "b[i-acute]" 'nose') carries a different meaning than the same syllable spoken with a falling pitch (e.g. "b[i with grave]" 'arm'). For native speakers (L1) of a non-tonal…
Descriptors: Intonation, Mandarin Chinese, Tone Languages, English
Ruqayyah Althubyani – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study aimed to investigate the role that phonetic convergence plays in the acquisition of L2 segments. In particular, it examined whether phonetic convergence towards native speakers could help Arabic-speaking second-language (L2) learners of English improve their pronunciation of four problematic English segments (/p, v, [open-mid front…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Phonetics
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Henrichsen, Lynn E. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
Computer-assisted pronunciation teaching (CAPT) for second-language learners has made great strides in recent years. While once small in number and confined to desktop computers, a great variety of CAPT resources are available online today. These resources provide instructional activities of various types, utilize different sensory modalities, and…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Kartushina, Natalia; Martin, Clara D. – Language Learning, 2019
Compared to low-variability training, high-variability training leads to better learning outcomes and supports generalization of learning. However, it is unclear whether the learning advantage is driven by multiple talkers or by enhanced acoustic variability across target sounds. The current study addressed this issue in nonnative production…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Articulation (Speech), Phonemics, French
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Saito, Kazuya; Plonsky, Luke – Language Learning, 2019
We propose a new framework for conceptualizing measures of instructed second language (L2) pronunciation performance according to three sets of parameters: (a) the constructs (focused on global vs. specific aspects of pronunciation), (b) the scoring method (human raters vs. acoustic analyses), and (c) the type of knowledge elicited (controlled vs.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Scoring, Pronunciation Instruction
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Osatananda, Varisa; Thinchan, Wipawan – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
Praat is a freeware program widely used by phoneticians for acoustic analyses of speech sounds, though less commonly so for pedagogical purposes. To our knowledge, no research on English pronunciation teaching has used Praat outside a classroom setting. In this article, we would like to report on a voluntary pronunciation-training project and…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Acoustics, Speech Communication, Teaching Methods
James M. Stratton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The question of whether second languages (L2s) are best learned implicitly or explicitly has been a topic of much empirical discourse, with the majority of studies pointing to the benefits of explicit instruction when learning L2 grammar rules. However, given the focus on grammar, it is unclear how generalizable these findings are to other…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis, Auditory Perception
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Kuronen, Mikko; Tergujeff, Elina – Language Learning Journal, 2020
This study focuses on the development of L2 prosody and, in particular, whether different aspects can affect each other. Finnish-speaking learners of Swedish took part in a pronunciation and oral skills course and were recorded for various speaking tasks before and after the experimental intervention. Read-aloud declarative sentences (statements)…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Finno Ugric Languages, Swedish
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Liu, Jiaqi; Lin, Jiayan – SAGE Open, 2021
The research reported in this article investigated how students learning Japanese or Russian as a third language (L3) perceived and produced word-initial stops in their respective target language and the link between perception and production. The participants in the study were 39 Chinese university students who spoke Mandarin Chinese as their…
Descriptors: Phonology, Contrastive Linguistics, Russian, Japanese
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