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“Our study offers insight into…” Rhetorical promotion in English and Spanish conference abstracts
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 134-149, February 2024.Abstract The conference abstract (CA) is an important promotional academic genre that allows scholars to introduce their research to their peers as a conference presentation if the proposal is accepted by the reviewing gatekeepers. However, few studies have explored the CA in specific disciplines and no studies have examined this genre from an ...
Pedro Martín, Sally Burgess
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Reactions Toward Varying Degrees of Accentedness in the Speech of Spanish-English Bilinguals
, 1977 Approximately 100 college students were asked to evaluate Spanish-English bilingual speakers on the basis of taped readings of an English text. The speakers were chosen to represent a wide range of accentedness.
Ellen Bouchard Ryan +2 more
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The Effect of ICPT (Innovative Cued Pronunciation Training) on Elementary Level Iranian EFL Students' Pronunciation Accuracy and Accent Appropriateness [PDF]
Technology Assisted Language EducationThis article investigates the effects of a homework-based pronunciation training method called Innovative Cued Pronunciation Training (ICPT) on Iranian EFL learners’ pronunciation and accent skills. It reviews the historical and theoretical background of
Mohammadreza Mohammadzadeh +1 more
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Speaking anxiety and task complexity effects on second language speech
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 292-315, February 2024.Abstract The association between speaking anxiety and L2 speech production, including L2 pronunciation, remains largely under‐researched, especially in relation to task complexity. The present study investigates the effect of task complexity on speaking anxiety and their impact on specific dimensions of L2 speech production: speaking fluency (speed ...
Joan C. Mora +2 more
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Lexical correlates of comprehensibility versus accentedness in second language speech [PDF]
, 2016 The current project investigated the extent to which several lexical aspects of second language (L2) speech – appropriateness, fluency, variation, sophistication, abstractness, sense relations – interact to influence native speakers’ judgements of ...
Saito, Kazuya +10 more
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Canadian Journal of Applied LinguisticsWhile explicit instruction helps L2 learners in pronunciation learning (Lee et al., 2015; Saito & Plonsky, 2019), task-based language teaching enhances second language (L2) pronunciation development when learners are exposed to tasks that vary in ...
Joshua Gordon
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Education Research International, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.The current research aimed to know the effect of phonological and phonetic interventions in enhancing proficiency in English pronunciation and oral reading among teacher trainees. This study was of single‐group pretest and posttest intervention designs.
Diwakar Prahaladaiah +2 more
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This study investigates whether audio-capable large language models (LLMs) categorize L2 English accentedness in ways similar to human raters. Evaluations produced by Google Gemini Flash and Gemini Pro are compared against those of native American ...
Laura Zorzi, Felipe Flores Kupske
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Second language speech production: investigating linguistic correlates of comprehensibility and accentedness for learners at different ability levels [PDF]
, 2016 The current project aimed to investigate the potentially different linguistic correlates of comprehensibility (i.e., ease of understanding) and accentedness (i.e., linguistic nativelikeness) in adult second language (L2) learners’ extemporaneous speech ...
Saito, Kazuya +5 more
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Open science: Considerations and issues for TESOL research
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 537-556, March 2024.
Ali H. Al‐Hoorie +6 more
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