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Improving Pinyin Instruction: Implications Based on Chinese-English Phonetic Contrastive Analysis

2021 2nd International Conference on Computers, Information Processing and Advanced Education, 2021
Abstract: The largest part of foreign Chinese learners are people from the English-speaking communities and the phonetic system of Chinese is a real priority for these learners. Phonetic contrastive analysis (CA) of the native and the target language can benefit language teaching and learning.
Long Ye
exaly   +3 more sources

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)
Kazuya Saito
exaly   +2 more sources

A computer-aided phonetic instruction system for south-asian languages

3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1994), 1994
Tsuyoshi Nara, P. Bhaskararao
exaly   +2 more sources

Phonetic Symbols in Contemporary Pronunciation Instruction

RELC Journal, 2020
This article explores the potential of phonetic symbols in pronunciation teaching/learning, with a focus on English language teaching (ELT). After a brief contextualisation of current views of pronunciation instruction in the second-language (L2) teaching literature, the article reviews some of the potential advantages of, conditions for, and ...
Jose A Mompean, Jonás Fouz-González
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Infusing social justice in the development and instruction of a course on the history of phonetics

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023
We describe the design and implementation of a mixed undergraduate and graduate seminar on the history of phonetics (from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries). The goal of the course was to teach and learn about the history of the field using a pedagogical framework in which all aspects of the course are framed with the values of antiracism, social ...
Marc Garellek   +3 more
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Short term phonetic and phonological changes during Spanish instruction.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2010
Several studies have shown that phonetic and phonological categories of both languages interact in bilingual speakers [e.g., speech learning model; Flege (1995)]. Interestingly, these categories continuously change over a period of time, drifting toward the characteristics of the ambient language. [Sancier and Fowler (1997)].
Navin Viswanathan   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Opportunities for computer-aided instruction in phonetics and speech communication provided by the internet

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1997), 1997
Spoken language engineering is starting to deliver technological products to the commercial market and has an important future role in supporting the multilingual structures of modern Europe. The field will be driven forward by basic science and applied research by experts drawn from a variety of backgrounds; among them: linguistics, psychology ...
Huckvale, M   +6 more
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First language phonetic drift in second language instructional environment

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2018
Recent research demonstrates that second language learning can affect first language speech production. This has been shown for proficient long-term second language learners in immigration settings (Flege, 1987) as well as novice learners in the study abroad setting (Chang, 2013).
Olga Dmitrieva, Alexis N. Tews
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