Teachers’ and Learners’ Beliefs About Pronunciation Instruction in Tertiary English as a Foreign Language Education [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recent studies have sought to describe and understand English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) teachers’ pronunciation teaching practices in different contexts, but much less research has examined how teachers and learners perceive pronunciation ...
Loc Tan Nguyen +3 more
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A Comparative Study of Explicit and Implicit Mediators at Iranian High Schools: Students’ L2 Anxiety and Listening Comprehension [PDF]
Research 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 efficacy of the type of instruction on second language pronunciation acquisition
Frontiers in Education, 2023 This study investigates the efficacy of the type of instruction (i.e., perception-based vs. production-based) on second language (L2) pronunciation acquisition in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context.
Sharif Alghazo +3 more
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LAMP Revalidated: Iranian English-major Learners’ Attitudes and Motivations Regarding Teaching and Learning English Pronunciation [PDF]
Research in English Language Pedagogy, 2020 The field of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) has recently witnessed a renewed interest in pronunciation; nevertheless, this interest has been mostly directed toward pronunciation instruction even though learners’ instructional gains are ...
Frahad Tabandeh, Elham Parvaneh
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Cogent Psychology, 2021 Within the field of second language acquisition, pronunciation has received relatively little attention. This lack of research can also be seen in the general lack of systematic pedagogical materials for pronunciation training, effectively reinforcing ...
Majid Zeinali Nejad +2 more
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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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International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019 This study explored 36 undergraduates’ knowledge construction and implementation of pedagogical competence in pronunciation instruction. These undergraduates were language learners themselves, but they were trained to become language teachers receiving ...
Chin-Wen Chien
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Development and Construct Validation of a Diagnostic Pronunciation Rating Scale by Many-Facet Rasch Analysis [PDF]
International Journal of TESOL Studies, 2020 Assessment of pronunciation has long been established as an integral component of speaking assessment, usually combined with other dimensions such as fluency, lexico-grammatical resources and topic development to generate an overall score for the ...
Sen Liu, Zijie Niu, Yuanyue Hao
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The Effect of ICPT (Innovative Cued Pronunciation Training) on Elementary Level Iranian EFL Students' Pronunciation Accuracy and Accent Appropriateness [PDF]
Technology Assisted Language EducationThis article investigates the effects of a homework-based pronunciation training method called Innovative Cued Pronunciation Training (ICPT) on Iranian EFL learners’ pronunciation and accent skills. It reviews the historical and theoretical background of
Mohammadreza Mohammadzadeh +1 more
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Pronunciation improvement in EFL young learners through phonics instruction
Praxis, 2016 This article is based on a mixed research, whose objective was the use of Phonics Instruction to improve pronunciation of four sounds /θ/ , /ð/, /I/ and /I:/ in young learners in a private school in Bogotá.
María Andrea Beltrán-Herrera +2 more
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