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Functional Load and the Teaching-Learning Relationship in L2 Pronunciation
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 Though frequent recourse has been made to the functional load (or FL) principle in establishing priorities for L2 pronunciation teaching, it remains an under-theorized and relatively under-utilized concept.
Andrew Sewell
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.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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GlossaThe present study provides a formal account for three types of experimental findings recurrently reported in the literature, yet not integrated into current L2 speech theories, namely individual variability, syllable-position effects and orthographic ...
Chao Zhou, Silke Hamann
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign languages are often learnt in formal and disembodied environments which may limit the emotional resonance of their vocabulary and their pragmatic usage in real‐life communication. In a context of English as a foreign language (EFL), this study examines whether elaborative processing as a teaching strategy leads to changes in the ...
María Jesús Sánchez +3 more
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Interlanguage Cluster Production of L2 English by L1 Saudi Arabic Speakers
الآداب للدراسات اللغوية والأدبية, 2021 This study aimed to provides an in-depth phonological analysis of the utterance of L2 coda clusters by Saudi Arabic second language (L2) English learners. Research in the domain of L2 phonetics and phonology show that L2 learners encounter difficulties
عبدالله بن نجر العتيبي
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Journal of Language and Education, 2019 Second language (L2) phonological acquisition is constrained by a complex interplay of extra-linguistic factors, among which the age factor is frequently investigated.
Zhengwei Pei, Kerong Qin
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Exploring the Complexity of the L2 Intonation System: An Acoustic and Eye-Tracking Study
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 Phonological research has demonstrated that English intonation, variably referred to as prosody, is a multidimensional and multilayered system situated at the interface of information structure, morphosyntactic structure, phonological phenomena, and ...
Di Liu, Marnie Reed
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Regressive transfer has been a subject that has not been extensively researched in the field of third language acquisition. This study aims to examine the extent to which a highly advanced knowledge of a third language (L3) affects the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) of early bilinguals in light of the Differential Stability ...
Maddi Alkain Arizmendi +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Bilingualism is a worldwide phenomenon and provides an opportunity to understand how the brain represents language processing. Although many studies have investigated the neural mechanism of bilingualism, it still remain unclear how brain systems are ...
JeYoung Jung +4 more
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The Potential Role of Surprisal in Predicting Pronunciation Problems in L2 English Phonology
Anglophonia, 2020 This paper investigates whether phonological properties of articulation complexity coupled with familiarity and frequency of learner usage can explain pronunciation mistakes in L2 English.
Monika Pukli
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