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Direct linkDerwing, Tracey M.; Thomson, Ron I.; Munro, Murray J. – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2006
The development of accent and fluency are traced in the speech of 20 Mandarin and 20 Slavic adult immigrants to Canada over a period of 10 months. The participants were enrolled in an ESL program but had no special instruction in either pronunciation or fluency. The immigrants' self-reported exposure to English outside of class was used to…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
