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A Survey of English Phonetics Instruction in China
International Journal of English Linguistics, 2015 Although pronunciation is a salient component of effective oral communication, English phonetics instruction has long been marginalized in China and relevant research is also scarce. To bridge this gap, we did a survey of 64 English majors from a Chinese university and 13 English Phonetics quality courses on national, provincial and collegiate levels
Zhengwei Pei, Kerong Qin
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Second language pronunciation: a summary of teaching techniques
Vestnik za Tuje Jezike, 2019 The aim of the paper is to give a critical summary of the traditional and more alternative techniques and activities for pronunciation practice recommended in the literature.
Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova
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Didáctica. Lengua y Literatura, 2021 The development of oral communication competence is acknowledged as generally overlooked or misunderstood in the literature. The aim of this article is to discuss results from an investigation into the use of explicit instruction as a pedagogical approach to mitigate pronunciation interference among third-year university students learning Spanish as a ...
Wagner, Lisa C. +2 more
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Music lessons improve auditory perceptual and cognitive performance in deaf children
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Despite advanced technologies in auditory rehabilitation of profound deafness, deaf children often exhibit delayed cognitive and linguistic development and auditory training remains a crucial element of their education.
Françoise eROCHETTE
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Event-related potentials reveal limited readiness to access phonetic details during word processing in dogs [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 While dogs have remarkable abilities for social cognition and communication, the number of words they learn to recognize typically remains very low. The reason for this limited capacity is still unclear.
L. Magyari +3 more
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Ilha do Desterro, 2017 This paper presents data on the production of English vowels [i ? ? æ u ?] by Brazilian English Language Teaching (ELT) undergraduate students before and after taking a course on English Segmental Phonology.
Ronaldo Mangueira Lima Jr
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Education Sciences, 2023 Input and context-related factors identified by research as key success variables in L2 pronunciation development in immersion contexts play a very modest role in instructed foreign language (FL) learning environments.
Joan C. Mora, Ingrid Mora-Plaza
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Adopting French Names as Identity Markers among Second Foreign Language (L3) Learners in China
Names, 2023 Using foreign names has become common practice for Chinese students who are learning a foreign language to develop a special identity in multilingual contexts. French is one of the most studied foreign languages in China.
Ying Qi Wu, Shan Shan Li
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Laboratory PhonologyWord shadowing tasks elicit phonetic convergence to the stimulus model talkers, suggesting a tight perception-production link. The magnitude of this convergence is affected by linguistic and social factors, suggesting that the perception-production link ...
Cynthia G Clopper +2 more
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