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Thomson, Ron I. – Language Learning, 2012
A high variability phonetic training technique was employed to train 26 Mandarin speakers to better perceive ten English vowels. In eight short training sessions, learners identified 200 English vowel tokens, produced in a post bilabial stop context by 20 native speakers. Learners' ability to identify English vowels significantly improved in the…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Tests, Phonetics, Native Speakers
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Grosbois, Muriel – ReCALL, 2011
Despite the spread of reliable desktop audio and videoconferencing facilities, some CMC-based projects still rely on asynchronous written environments, if only because of the temporal constraints of synchronicity (Guichon, 2009; Develotte, Guichon & Vincent, 2010). Yet speaking is usually the skill students most need to improve when learning a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Interlanguage, Native Speakers
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Dekhinet, Rayenne – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
This study investigates the value of online enhanced corrective feedback for non-native speakers of English from (1) the quality of their interaction online, (2) their perceptions, and (3) the challenges encountered. Online enhanced feedback is an online peer tutoring technique that was developed from Negotiated Meaning and used by native speakers…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Tutoring