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Patricia Arnold; María Teresa Martínez García – Hispania, 2025
Learners who lack the perception of specific sounds or pronunciation can attain a measure of inability to participate in meaningful communication due to their difficulties in understanding and being understood. This article presents lesson plans that provide a framework for addressing the needs of learners as they move from perceiving sounds to…
Descriptors: Spanish, Vowels, Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction
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Adam F. McBride; Céline Rose – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
Despite the fact that pronunciation is a vital aspect of language learning, previous research has shown that its instruction is limited in the classroom in terms of time and attention, due in part to the time constraints inherent in any curriculum. It then becomes essential for instructors to be strategic about the pronunciation features they…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Vowels, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Cámara-Arenas, Enrique; Tejedor-García, Cristian; Tomas-Vázquez, Cecilia Judith; Escudero-Mancebo, David – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
This study addresses the issue of automatic pronunciation assessment (APA) and its contribution to the teaching of second language (L2) pronunciation. Several attempts have been made at designing such systems, and some have proven operationally successful. However, the automatic assessment of the pronunciation of short words in segmental…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Analysis of a corpus of errors in pronouncing Proper Nouns used in English collected from the spontaneous speech of a sample of Arab informants showed that Arabic speakers have the following problems: (i) mispronouncing English vowels in "Google," "Moodle," "Uber," "Nixon," "London;" (ii) replacing…
Descriptors: Arabs, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Nouns
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Miquel Llompart – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This study presents a reanalysis of existing data to investigate whether a relationship between perception and production abilities regarding a challenging second-language (L2) phonological contrast is observable (a) when both modalities must rely on accessing stored lexical representations and (b) when there is an asymmetry in task focus between…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ingrid Mora-Plaza; Joan C. Mora; Mireia Ortega; Cristina Aliaga-Garcia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This study examines the effects of task complexity on second language (L2) pronunciation accuracy and global pronunciation measures in pronunciation-unfocused tasks and assesses the relationship between acoustic and listener-based pronunciation measures. Eighty-two Catalan/Spanish learners of English performed simple and complex versions of a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Fouz-González, Jonás; Mompean, Jose A. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
This study investigated the potential of phonetic symbols and keywords as response labels for perceptual training of L2 sounds. Seventy-one Spanish learners of English were assigned to three groups: symbols, keywords, and control. Students in the symbols and keywords groups followed a 4-week High Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) program based…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Phonetics, Alphabets
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Silva Valencia, Juan Carlos – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2022
This paper analyzes a few significant differences between Spanish and English in relation to phonological patterns. First, a short introduction is given about these two languages, and it is briefly explained in what linguistic aspects they are similar or different. Then, each of these linguistic features is analyzed in detail, clearly establishing…
Descriptors: Spanish, English, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Patterns
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Dandee, Warinthon; Pornwiriyakit, Pornchai – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
This study aims to investigate the improvement of EFL students' English pronunciation skills by using English phonetic alphabet drills. The samples of this study were 35 first-year students of English for International Communication major, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok. They all registered…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Pronunciation Instruction
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Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf; Zulfadli A. Aziz; Nurjannah; Stefanie Pillai – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2024
This study explored the production of 11 English vowels by Acehnese Indonesian EFL students. Ten undergraduates (five males and five females) from the Pidie District, Aceh, participated, with Acehnese and Bahasa Indonesia as their first languages, and English learned formally at school since the 7th grade. Using PRAAT, recordings of vowel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Jiang, Fan; Kennison, Shelia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The current study investigates the influence of L2 English learners' belief about their interlocutor's English proficiency on phonetic accommodation and explores whether interaction-induced phonetic convergence could improve L2 English learners' vowel pronunciation. Results from two experiments show that when the subjects believed that their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
Kevin R. Hirschi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Millions engage in learning a Second Language (L2) using their mobile devices with a wide range of success. Concomitantly, there exists a growing interest in research on the effects of mobile-assisted language learning and predictors of learner outcomes (e.g., Loewen et al., 2020; Sudina & Plonsky, 2023). However, few of these apps and studies…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Purnama, Syahfitri; Pawiro, Muhammad Ali; Azis – International Journal of Language Education, 2023
Speaker's good pronunciation makes his/her listener comfortable, and confident to participate in the conversation and his/her mispronunciations bring implications to the listener's awareness and involvement with the message spoken. The research was aimed at detecting the mispronunciations produced by 70 nonnative (L2) post-graduate students who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Graduate Students
Li, Joanne Jingwen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Although second language (L2) learners often have difficulty with learning the L2 pronunciation, the literature has reported a mix of more successful and less successful learners. Many factors could contribute to individual variation in L2 speech sound learning. This dissertation examines a few factors that are hypothesized to influence L2…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Adult Students
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Immonen, Katja; Peltola, Kimmo U.; Tamminen, Henna; Alku, Paavo; Peltola, Maija S. – Second Language Research, 2023
Children are known to be fast learners due to their neural plasticity. Learning a non-native language (L2) requires the mastering of new production patterns. In classroom settings, learners are not only exposed to the acoustic input, but also to the unfamiliar grapheme-phoneme correspondences of the L2 orthography. We tested how 9-10-year-old…
Descriptors: Written Language, Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Linguistic Input
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