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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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L2 pronunciation quality in read and spontaneous speech
6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), 2000 Contains fulltext : 76192.pdf (author's version ) (Open Access)
Strik, H. +2 more
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Vowel Characteristics in the Assessment of L2 English Pronunciation
Interspeech 2016, 2016 There is considerable need to utilise linguistically meaningful measures of second language (L2) proficiency that are based on perceptual cues used by humans to assess pronunciation. Previous research on non-native acquisition of vowel systems suggests a strong link between vowel production accuracy and speech intelligibility. It is well known that the
Calbert Graham +2 more
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Perceptual, Affective and Cognitive Factors of L2 Pronunciation and Foreign Accent. A Survey with Italian University Students Majoring in Languages [PDF]
, 2022 This contribution investigates the opinions of 372 first-year students from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice about pronunciation and foreign accent in the languages chosen as main subjects.
Ignacio Arroyo Hernández +3 more
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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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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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Apps for developing pronunciation in English as an L2
Revista X, 2021 El objetivo de la enseñanza de la pronunciación debe ser permitir a los alumnos desarrollar una pronunciación inteligible y, para ello, es importante enseñar la percepción y producción de las características segmentarias y suprasegmentales más relevantes de la pronunciación, considerando grupos específicos de alumnos (CELCE-MURCIA et al. , 2010).
Luana Garbin Baldissera +1 more
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Bridging the gap: Second language pronunciation and speech-language pathology
Canadian Journal of Applied LinguisticsSpeech-language pathologists (SLPs) are increasingly asked to assess the pronunciation of bilingual individuals, yet many report feeling underprepared and lacking confidence in their ability to do so efficiently. Meanwhile, second-language (L2) teachers
Marie Nader, Marianne Paul
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Encapsulins are protein nanocompartments that play an important role in iron storage. In the Myxococcus xanthus encapsulin system, two cargo proteins called EncB and EncC contribute to iron mineralization. Here, we show that EncB and EncC generate iron‐containing minerals with distinct chemical compositions, suggesting that the composition of stored ...
Harry B. McDowell +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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