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Jekiel, Mateusz; Malarski, Kamil – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
The present study seeks to determine whether superior musical hearing is correlated with successful production of second language (L2) intonation patterns. Fifty Polish speakers of English at the university level were recorded before and after an extensive two-semester accent training course in English. Participants were asked to read aloud a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intonation, Music
Akiko Fuse; Krysteena Alloggio; Seung-Yun Yang – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of the listener's education and occupation on intelligibility, comprehensibility (ease of understanding), and accentedness in speakers of Russian-accented American English (RA), Southern-accented American English (SA), and General American English (GAE). Native English listeners (N=126) rated…
Descriptors: Dialects, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Linghong Li; Martin Valcke; Linda Badan; Christoph Anderl – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background study: Chinese tone pronunciation instruction gains increasingly attention and various instructional strategies have been studied to develop effective tones in students. Students usually listen to successful pronunciation stimuli provided by the teacher or peers, to be copied by themselves. However, individuals seem more sensitive to…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Intonation
Di Liu; Alison McGregor; Beth Zielinski; Marnie Reed; Colleen Meyers – Language Awareness, 2025
The present study investigated six experienced English as a second language (ESL) teachers' metalinguistic knowledge of the English intonation system through analysis of their metalanguage. Participants' metalanguage related to intonation was collected while completing three tasks: (1) a semi-structured interview, (2) a simulated teaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Intonation
Nghi Tin Tran; Thang Tat Nguyen; Hai Hong Pham – rEFLections, 2024
The current study aimed to gain insight into the nuanced challenges that Vietnamese learners encountered due to the interference of their native linguistic structures and norms. This qualitative study explored the experiences of Vietnamese learners in acquiring English, focusing on the influence of negative L1 transfer. This study focused on the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Transfer of Training, Vietnamese, English (Second Language)
Baills, Florence; Prieto, Pilar – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This study tested the effects of hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned French words on the pronunciation of these words by 7- to 8-year-old Catalan children. In a short training experiment with a pre- and posttest design, 28 children either repeated cognate words in French (e.g. French "aspirateur," Catalan "aspirador"…
Descriptors: French, Language Rhythm, Motor Reactions, Pronunciation
Schwartz, Geoffrey – Second Language Research, 2023
Two acoustic studies of voice onset time (VOT) in sibilant-stop (ST) consonant clusters, produced by first language (L1) speakers of Polish, are presented. In the first, a baseline study of L1 Polish comparing ST clusters with initial singleton stops, a small degree of VOT shortening after /s/ was found for /p/, but not /t/. The second study…
Descriptors: Phonology, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Li, Peng; Baills, Florence; Prieto, Pilar – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
While empirical studies have shown the beneficial role of observing and producing hand gestures mimicking pitch features in the learning of L2 tonal or intonational contrasts, mixed results have been obtained for the use of gestures encoding durational contrasts at the perceptual level. This study investigates the potential benefits of horizontal…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Second Language Learning, Cognitive Processes, Japanese
Rachida Ganga; Haoyan Ge; Marijn E. Struiksma; Virginia Yip; Aoju Chen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
It has been proposed that second language (L2) learners differ from native speakers in processing due to either influence from their native language or an inability to integrate information from multiple linguistic domains in a second language. To shed new light on the underlying mechanism of L2 processing, we used an event-related potentials…
Descriptors: Language Processing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Saito, Kazuya; Macmillan, Konstantinos; Kachlicka, Magdalena; Kunihara, Takuya; Minematsu, Nobuaki – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Whereas many scholars have emphasized the relative importance of "comprehensibility" as an ecologically valid goal for L2 speech training, testing, and development, eliciting listeners' judgments is time-consuming. Following calls for research on more efficient L2 speech rating methods in applied linguistics, and growing attention toward…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interrater Reliability, Speech Communication
Foltz, Anouschka – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
While monolingual speakers can use contrastive pitch accents to predict upcoming referents, bilingual speakers do not always use this cue predictively in their L2. The current study examines the role of recent exposure for predictive processing in native German (L1) second language learners of English (L2). In Experiment 1, participants followed…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Man-Ni Chu; Ewa Zajdler; Hui-Wen Lin – AILA Review, 2023
This study considers the performance of tone pronunciation and morpheme intelligibility by L2 Polish Mandarin learners. A mixed-effects ordinal regression model and Tukey's HSD multiple test were used to examine the start-point, end-point, of syllables as a means of assessing their intelligibility by L2 Polish learners regarding the tones with the…
Descriptors: Polish, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Speech Communication
Cedeño, Cindy; Santos, Luis – Online Submission, 2021
Songs and chants in EFL education are both artistic and pedagogical acts belonging to the same family of musical expressions, whose practical use in the classroom is not unfamiliar among teachers. Nevertheless, little effort has been made to distinguish between each other. In this sense, the popularity of songs in the context of EFL/ESL education…
Descriptors: Singing, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Boram Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation investigated the acoustic and articulatory correlates of lexical stress in Mandarin second language (L2) learners of English, as well as in first language (L1) speakers. The present study used a minimal pair respective to stress location (e.g., OBject versus obJECT) obtained from a publicly available Mandarin Accented English…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intonation
Daniel Malakowsky – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
Twenty adult ESL students at a community college participated in a semester reading intervention. Participants received a modified extensive reading treatment, and some participants received an additional repeated reading direct instruction reading intervention. The author examined the impact of the reading interventions on ESL students' reading…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Community Colleges