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Ease and Difficulty in L2 Pronunciation Teaching: A Mini-Review
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 Both L2 learners and their teachers are concerned about pronunciation. While an unspoken classroom goal is often native-accented speech (i.e., a spoken variety of the mother tongue that it not geographically confined to a place within a particular ...
Mary Grantham O’Brien
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Issues and Trends in Educational Technology, 2017 Hundreds of millions of language learners worldwide use and purchase language software that may not fully support their language development. This review of Rosetta Stone (Swad, 1992), Duolingo (Hacker, 2011), Babbel (Witte & Holl, 2016), and Mango ...
Joan Bajorek
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Learning L2 pronunciation with Google Translate
, 2022 This article, based on Khademi’s (2021) Master’s thesis, examines the use of Google Translate (GT) and its speech capabilities, Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), in helping L2 learners acquire the pronunciation of English past -ed allomorphy (/t/
Hamidreza Khademi, Walcir Cardoso
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L2 learners’ pronunciation of English phonetic sounds
International journal of linguistics, literature and culture, 2023 Pronouncing English sounds correctly is not an easy task for second language (L2) learners because of the influence of their mother tongue. Empirical studies, based on first language (L1) interference, have investigated L2 learners’ pronunciation problems.
Ruiying Niu, Yuhao Chen, Jingtuo Wu
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Contrastive vs Non-Contrastive Meta-Phonetic Input in Teaching Foreign Language Pronunciation
Lidil, 2020 Almost every study on explicit meta-phonetic instruction in teaching foreign language (L2) pronunciation confirms its facilitating effect. However, hardly any studies applying contrastive (L1-L2) meta-phonetic instruction are available so far.
Zdena Kralova +2 more
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Production of Acoustic Correlates of Stress by L2 Spanish-Speaking Immigrants to Spain
Languages, 2023 Little work has examined the L2 acquisition of Spanish stress, and especially the production of its acoustic correlates, and the work that has is largely limited to inexperienced learners.
Timothy L. Face
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The relationship between phonotactic awareness and pronunciation in adult second language learners
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada: This study examined to what extent L1 Brazilian Portuguese (BP) EFL learners are aware of L2 phonotactics and whether there would be a relationship between L2 phonotactic awareness and L2 pronunciation accuracy.
Hanna Kivistö-de Souza
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Cultural Competence in L2 Pronunciation Acquisition
International Journal of Linguistics, 2023 This study explored the possible relationship between L2 cultural competence and pronunciation proficiency in seven advanced learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Three methods were used in this study regarding the participants’ learning experience, pronunciation proficiency, and cultural competence.
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A neurophysiological investigation of non-native phoneme perception by Dutch and German listeners
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The Mismatch Negativity (MMN) response has often been used to measure memory traces for phonological representations and to show effects of long-term native language (L1) experience on neural organization.
Heidrun eBien +4 more
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Cross-Cultural Speech Emotion Recognition for L2 Pronunciation Training
IEEE AccessImproving second language (L2) pronunciation is crucial for enhancing learners’ communicative competence, especially in terms of emotional expression. While current L2 training systems focus on pronunciation accuracy, they often overlook emotional
Chuqi Chen, Yan Cai
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