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Direct linkDerwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J.; Foote, Jennifer A.; Waugh, Erin; Fleming, Jason – Language Learning, 2014
We present the outcomes of a pronunciation training program conducted in a workplace setting with second language speakers who had lived in an English-speaking environment for an average of 19 years. The research questions concerned whether improvement would occur in the learners' perception of certain segments and prosody; in the…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Workplace Learning, Language Tests
Derwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J. – Language Learning, 2013
Researching the longitudinal development of second language (L2) learners is essential to understanding influences on their success. This 7-year study of oral skills in adult immigrant learners of English as a second language evaluated comprehensibility, fluency, and accentedness in first-language (L1) Mandarin and Slavic language speakers. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Munro, Murray J.; Derwing, Tracey M. – Language Learning, 2008
Research on second language (L2) phonetic learning indicates that, even in adults, segmental acquisition remains possible through L2 experience. However, the findings of previous cross-sectional studies of vowel and consonant learning have proved difficult to interpret. In this longitudinal investigation of 44 recent arrivals in Canada,…
Descriptors: Intervals, Phonetics, Vowels, Second Language Learning
Derwing, Tracey M.; Rossiter, Marian J.; Munro, Murray J.; Thomson, Ron I. – Language Learning, 2004
In this study we determined whether untrained raters' assessments of fluency in low-proficiency second language speech were related to temporal measures and whether they varied across tasks. We collected speech samples from 20 beginner Mandarin learners of English on picture description, monologue, and dialogue tasks. Temporal measures were made…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Pronunciation, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedMunro, Murray J.; Derwing, Tracey M. – Language Learning, 1998
Tested the hypothesis that accented speech heard at a reduced rate would sound less accented and more comprehensible than speech produced at a normal rate. In two experiments, English native-speaker listeners rated a passage read by 10 high-proficiency Mandarin learners of English. Findings suggest that a general speaking strategy of slowing down…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Hypothesis Testing, Language Proficiency, Listening Comprehension
Peer reviewedDerwing, Tracey; Munro, Murray J.; Wiebe, Grace – Language Learning, 1998
Native English-speaking (NS) listeners evaluated effects of three types of instruction (segmental accuracy; general speaking habits and prosodic factors; and no specific pronunciation instruction) on speech of three groups of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners. Sentences were recorded and extemporaneously produced narratives at beginning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Effectiveness, Native Speakers, Oral Language
