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A Comparative Study of Explicit and Implicit Mediators at Iranian High Schools: Students’ L2 Anxiety and Listening Comprehension [PDF]

open access: yesResearch in English Language Pedagogy, 2023
As conceptualized in Vygotsky’s (1978) theory of mediation, the present quantitative study scrutinized the impact of explicit and implicit mediators on high school students’ L2 listening anxiety and listening comprehension. Over six months, two groups of
Mohammad Darijani   +2 more
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The effects of novel orthographic input and phonetic instruction in second language phonological acquisition

open access: green, 2016
Research has demonstrated that exposure to orthographic input can heavily influence a person's phonological representation of a word, with the potential to even be more influential than auditory input when both are available. Previous research has investigated the helpfulness of different types of orthographic input for subjects learning a novel ...
Jackson, Joshua Lloyd
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Are new sounds learned in an FL context?

open access: yesJournal of Modern Languages, 2020
An increasing number of foreign language learners with multilingual backgrounds have generated much interest in teaching approaches that activate the learners' knowledge of linguistic features in their previously learned languages, while reinforcing ...
Frances Antoinette Cruz
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Phonetic Accommodation During Conversational Interactions: An Overview

open access: yesRevista Guillermo de Ockham, 2023
During conversational interactions such as tutoring, instruction-giving tasks, verbal negotiations, or just talking with friends, interlocutors’ behaviors experience a series of changes due to the characteristics of their counterpart and to the ...
Leonardo Barón
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Contrastive vs Non-Contrastive Meta-Phonetic Input in Teaching Foreign Language Pronunciation

open access: yesLidil, 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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The effectiveness of an instructional guide on Chinese pre-service EFL teachers’ knowledge in teaching phonics

open access: yesStudies in English Language and Education, 2022
In China, phonics instruction has been given substantial emphasis ever since the implementation of the 2011 National English Curriculum for Compulsory Education. However, many Chinese students’ learning outcome remains unsatisfactory due to EFL teachers’
Minjie Chen   +3 more
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Preliminary Results on the Development of the Perception of Spanish /e/ and /ei/ by Heritage Learners vs. L2 Learners of Spanish in the Classroom

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
This exploratory study gives a first glance at the development of the perception of the Spanish /e/-/ei/ contrast by heritage learners in comparison to that of L2 learners in the classroom.
Ane Icardo Isasa
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