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Direct linkSturm, Jessica L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
A body of previous work in second- and foreign language pronunciation instruction (e.g., Lord, 2005; Miller, 2012) has shown that explicit phonetic and pronunciation instruction is beneficial. However, Olson (2014) noted that just a few minutes per week of instruction are devoted to pronunciation in most classrooms. What is the effect of such…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Kilpatrick, Cynthia D.; Pierce, Lori McLain – Foreign Language Annals, 2014
It is well established that learners transfer sounds from their first to their second language when speaking (see Major, 2008, and references therein). Recent work also indicates that learners may transfer their perception of sounds from the first to the second language. In some cases, errors in production and perception are explicitly corrected…
Descriptors: Spanish, Phonemes, Transfer of Training, Auditory Perception
Wang, Hung-Chun; Shih, Su-Chin – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
This study investigated how English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' types of language for thinking and types of oral elicitation tasks influence their lexical collocational errors in speech. Data were collected from 42 English majors in Taiwan using two instruments: (1) 3 oral elicitation tasks and (2) an inner speech questionnaire. The…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Error Patterns, Language Role, Foreign Countries
Vyatkina, Nina – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This study explores the effectiveness of instructor-written corrective feedback for the improvement of writing accuracy by beginning college-level learners of German. The researcher investigated changes in error rates in six error categories in essay writing in correlation with three different corrective feedback types administered consistently…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Instructional Effectiveness, German, Grammar
Brown, N. Anthony; Solovieva, Raissa V.; Eggett, Dennis L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
This research describes a method applied at a U.S. university in a third-year Russian language course designed to facilitate Advanced and Superior second language writing proficiency through the forum of argumentation and debate. Participants had extensive informal language experience living in a Russian-speaking country but comparatively little…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Russian, Course Descriptions
Peer reviewedPowell, Patricia B. – Foreign Language Annals, 1975
Secondary students of French interviewed a researcher posing as a French speaker. Error patterns and structures used were analyzed. Many errors were apparently due to interference; many others were apparently the result of reduction processes. Results suggested that errors might be corrected in terms of comprehensibility to a native speaker.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, French
