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Attempts to Improve English L2 Pronunciation: The Variable Effects of Different Types of Instruction

Language Learning, 1994
This study compared the pronunciation of targeted vocabulary items in spontaneous speech by 23 adult Chinese L1 learners of L2 English grouped into four different conditions reflecting current pedagogical practices: (a) traditional drilling activities, (b) self‐study with tape recordings, (c) interactive activities, and (d) a no‐intervention control ...
Doris Macdonald   +2 more
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The relevance of accent in L2 pronunciation instruction: a matter of teaching cultures or language ideologies?

International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 2016
The aim of this paper is to offer a critical discussion of the role of native and foreign accents in L2 pronunciation teaching.
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Designing L2 pronunciation instruction activities for primary school learners

Language Teaching for Young Learners
Abstract This study employs a content analysis approach to examine the presentation of pronunciation instruction (PI) activities in six elementary school English language teaching (ELT) textbook series used in China.
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Jarosz, Anna (2019). English Pronunciation in L2 Instruction: The Case of Secondary School Learners

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 2021
This article reviews English Pronunciation in L2 Instruction: The Case of Secondary School ...
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Pronunciation Instruction Can Improve L2 Learners’ Bottom‐Up Processing for Listening

The Modern Language Journal, 2018
AbstractListening is widely regarded as an important skill that is difficult and necessary to teach in L2 classrooms. Listening requires both top‐down and bottom‐up processing, yet pedagogical techniques for the latter are often lacking. This study explores the efficacy of pronunciation instruction (PI) for improving learners’ bottom‐up processing. The
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Functional Load in Phonology: A Framework for Prioritizing L2 Pronunciation Instruction

Communications in Humanities Research
Pronunciation instruction in second language (L2) classrooms faces the persistent challenge of limited instructional time and numerous potential teaching targets. Traditional approaches often lack systematic prioritization, leading to arbitrary target selection.
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Effects of Instruction on L2 Pronunciation Development: A Synthesis of 15 Quasi‐Experimental Intervention Studies

TESOL Quarterly, 2012
Over the past 25 years second language (L2) acquisition researchhas paid considerable attention to the effectiveness of instruction onL2 morphosyntax development, and the findings of relevant empiricalstudies have been extensively summarized using narrative review meth-ods (e.g., Ellis, 2002) as well as meta-analytic review methods (e.g.,Spada & Tomita,
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Examining the role of explicit phonetic instruction in native-like and comprehensible pronunciation development: an instructed SLA approach to L2 phonology

Language Awareness, 2011
This paper reports on an instructed second language acquisition study that investigated the effects of explicit phonetic instruction on second language pronunciation by adopting two different outcome measurements (i.e. a rubric of accentedness as well as comprehensibility). Twenty native Japanese learners of English in ESL (English as a second language)
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