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Linguistic Correlates of L2 Korean Comprehensibility and Accentedness
, 2023 Data and analysis scripts for an analysis of linguistic correlates of L2 Korean comprehensibility and ...
Juhyun Jang +2 more
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Espaces Linguistiques, 2023 The present study investigates the co-occurrence of face, goat, price and mouth vocalic variants in the Tyneside Linguistic Survey (TLS, Strang, 1968).
Maelle AMAND
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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023 As an international language, English is an important tool for people of different native languages to communicate with each other. Many empirical studies, proving that foreign accents are prevalent in L2 learners’ oral English, involved native speakers
Xiaojiao Xue +3 more
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A Study of Accentedness in the Speech of Chinese EFL Learners [PDF]
, 2013 This paper investigates accentedness in the speech of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). 20 native English listeners rate for accentedness, comprehensibility and intelligibility after listening to 30 sentences produced by 28 Chinese
LI, Jingna, WANG, Yao
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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011 The construct of anxiety has been captivating the interest of SLA researchers for a long time. Numerous observations show that most individuals experience anxiety when learning a foreign language (FL) and using it, both in classroom and real-life ...
Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz
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Preschoolers benefit from sentential context in familiar- and unfamiliar-accented speech. [PDF]
Dev SciAbstract To learn the meaning of a new word, or to recognize the meaning of a known one, both children and adults benefit from surrounding words, or the sentential context. Most of the evidence from children is based on their accuracy and efficiency when listening to speech in their familiar native accent: they successfully use the words they know to ...
Atik ND, LaTourrette A, Waxman SR.
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Intelligibility of foreign-accented words: Acoustic distances and gradient foreign accentedness [PDF]
, 2015 Intelligibility and degree of accentedness are interrelated aspects of non-native speech. Previous research suggests that foreign accentedness is influenced by phonetic distance measures [7]. These distance measures may also influence the intelligibility
Tucker, Benjamin V., Porretta, Vincent
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Immersion and oral language development in a time of social disruption
Canadian Journal of Applied LinguisticsThis study investigated how international graduate students’ comprehensibility, accentedness, and fluency developed over 18 months of immersion in English, a time period interrupted by the social isolation of the COVID pandemic.
Mutleb Alnafisah +5 more
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Ilha do Desterro, 2017 This study reports on an experimental research carried out with 50 Spanish-L1 trainees, divided into 2 groups: A & B. Both groups were presented with a traditional-teacher centered approach based on controlled exercises (repetition, imitation), but group
Pedro Luis Luchini
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 1732-1745, May 2026.ABSTRACT The use of English accents beyond standard American and British varieties has been increasingly advocated in English language education, particularly in listening instruction and assessment. However, little is known about learners’ perspectives on diverse accents in terms of their use in different types of listening materials.
Ryuichi Suzuki +2 more
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