Chinese EFL learners’ self-perceived pronunciation accuracy: a structural equation modeling study of L2 selves, foreign language anxiety, and speaking self-efficacy [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground Learners’ self-evaluations of pronunciation are closely related to their emotional and motivational experiences in second language learning.
Xiaohu Huang, Pan Pan
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On the effects of L2 perception and of individual differences in L1 production on L2 pronunciation. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2014 The speech of late second language (L2) learners is generally marked by an accent. The dominant theoretical perspective attributes accents to deficient L2 perception arising from a transfer of L1 phonology, which is thought to influence L2 perception and production.
Kartushina N, Frauenfelder UH.
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A Probe into the Extraversion and L2 Pronunciation Relationship [PDF]
Communications - Scientific letters of the University of Zilina, 2012 The study assessed the relation between the overall degree of the perceived foreign accent in non-natives' English speech and some personal variables which include global factors (extraversion, anxiety, tough-mindedness, independence, self-control) and contributing primary factors, extraversion being the focus of our attention.
Zdena Kralova
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Integrating Form and Meaning in L2 Pronunciation Instruction [PDF]
TESL Canada Journal, 2009 One of the central challenges of ESL teaching is striking the right balance between form and meaning. In pronunciation pedagogy, this challenge is compounded because repetitive practice, which has been shown to enhance phonological acquisition and promote fluency, is widely viewed as being incompatible with communicative principles.
Isaacs, T, Isaacs, Talia
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Editorial: L2 Phonology Meets L2 Pronunciation [PDF]
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 John Archibald +2 more
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L2 accent and pronunciation research: acquisition, teaching, attitudes [PDF]
Linguistik OnlineThis thematic issue brings together a selection of papers presented at the international conference L2 accent and pronunciation research: acquisition, teaching, attitudes held at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari in November 2023.
Peter Paschke, David Newbold
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Is L2 pronunciation affected by increased task complexity in pronunciation-unfocused speaking tasks? [PDF]
Studies in Second Language AcquisitionAbstractThis study examines the effects of task complexity on second language (L2) pronunciation accuracy and global pronunciation measures in pronunciation-unfocused tasks and assesses the relationship between acoustic and listener-based pronunciation measures.
Ingrid Mora-Plaza +3 more
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Effects of hanyu pinyin on pronunciation in learners of Chinese as a foreign language [PDF]
, 2007 This paper provides evidence that the hanyu pinyin representation of the phonology of Chinese affects the production of Chinese phonology in instructed learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language.
Bassetti, Benedetta
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Common L2 Pronunciation Errors
, 2011 The present study focuses on students at two Swedish secondary schools and the pronunciation errors that are the most prominent during reception and production of specific speech sounds. The primary focus of this degree paper is to establish whether or not certain speech sounds such as e.g.
Centerman, Sofi, Krausz, Felix
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Education Sciences, 2023 Input and context-related factors identified by research as key success variables in L2 pronunciation development in immersion contexts play a very modest role in instructed foreign language (FL) learning environments.
Joan C. Mora, Ingrid Mora-Plaza
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