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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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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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Integrating Form and Meaning in L2 Pronunciation Instruction [PDF]
TESL Canada Journal, 2009 One of the central challenges of ESL teaching is striking the right balance between form and meaning. In pronunciation pedagogy, this challenge is compounded because repetitive practice, which has been shown to enhance phonological acquisition and promote fluency, is widely viewed as being incompatible with communicative principles.
Isaacs, T
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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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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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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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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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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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From Focus on Sounds to Focus on Words in English Pronunciation Instruction [PDF]
, 2010 The authors present a report on the experiment in which a group of 25 Polish secondary school pupils has undergone a special training in the pronunciation of 50 commonly mispronounced words with the use of special, teacher-designed materials.
Stasiak, Sławomir +1 more
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Smoothie or Fruit Salad? Learners’ Descriptions of Accents as Windows to Concept Formation [PDF]
, 2015 This paper explores the linguistically naive descriptions which one set of EFL learners provided when identifying and describing accents. First and second-year English majors at a French university were asked to do two tasks.
Alice Henderson +70 more
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