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Can pronunciation be taught? A review of research and implications for teaching

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2004
Pronunciation teaching has often been relegated to a subsidiary role of broader language performance skills such as speaking and listening, but in the past few years instruction on specific features of the spoken language have been reassessed and ...
Barrera Pardo, Darío
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A Discussion of the Ins and Outs of L2 Pronunciation Instruction: A Clash of Methodologies

Ana Dili Eğitimi Dergisi, 2018
The value attached to pronunciation has kept changing continually in the methodological history of language instruction. Depending on the nature of methodological considerations that dominated research and teaching agenda, it either received too much ...
Arif Bakla, Mehmet Demirezen
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INVESTIGATING PRONUNCIATION DIFFICULTIES AND PREFERENCE FOR PRONUNCIATION INSTRUCTION

European Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 2022
Pronunciation can take an important role in communication as unintelligible sounds can make listeners unable to understand the intended meaning of the speaker, so obtaining an intelligible accent or pronunciation is crucial. With this importance, the current study attempted to investigate what can cause learners difficulties when learning pronunciation.
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Pronunciation Instruction and Students’ Practice to Develop Their Confidence in EFL Oral Skills

Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2014
The aim of this article is to inform on research intended to find out how pronunciation instruction of English as a foreign language was handled in the language classroom with elementary students and also understand if pronunciation instruction had an ...
Ana Cristina Tlazalo Tejeda, Nora M. Basurto Santos   +1 more
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Theoretical and Practical Phonetic Instruction in the Eyes of Advanced Students. An Editorial to RiL Special Issue Vol. 21.3 and 21.4 on Pronunciation Research and Pronunciation Learning/Teaching in a Global EFL Perspective

Research in Language, 2023
The article focuses on advanced students’ beliefs and views related to their own pronunciation and pronunciation learning/teaching. It also presents their opinions on the university courses dedicated to phonetics and phonology of the English language ...
Anna Jarosz
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An exploration of the potential benefit of extensive listening along with orthography for improving EFL learners’ pronunciation

Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
Explicit pronunciation instruction has been shown to be effective in improving language learners’ pronunciation, yet it is not clear whether the same can be said about implicit pronunciation instruction.
Nada Almalki, Ghazi Algethami
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Teaching Pronunciation with Computer Assisted Pronunciation Instruction in a Technological University [PDF]

Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of computer assisted pronunciation instruction in English pronunciation for students in vocational colleges and universities in Taiwan. The participants were fifty-one first-year undergraduate students from a technological university located in central Taiwan. The participants received an eight-
Sze-Chu Liu, Po-Yi Hung
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Native-speaker and English as a lingua franca pronunciation norms: English majors’ views

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Within the communicative approach to English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching, the aims of instruction are primarily to enable learners to communicate; hence, functional and communicative intelligibility has become the goal of pronunciation training.
Aleksandra Wach
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Pronunciation instruction in the context of world English: exploring university EFL instructors’ perceptions and practices

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Teaching a foreign language requires instructors to be knowledgeable about and capable of providing instruction that facilitates their students’ ability to understand, speak, read, and write the new language. However, as established within the literature,
Asma Almusharraf
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Crosstalk between the ribosome quality control‐associated E3 ubiquitin ligases LTN1 and RNF10

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Loss of the E3 ligase LTN1, the ubiquitin‐like modifier UFM1, or the deubiquitinating enzyme UFSP2 disrupts endoplasmic reticulum–ribosome quality control (ER‐RQC), a pathway that removes stalled ribosomes and faulty proteins. This disruption may trigger a compensatory response to ER‐RQC defects, including increased expression of the E3 ligase RNF10 ...
Yuxi Huang, Satoshi Hashimoto, Sota Ito, Chisato Kikuguchi, Miho Hoshi, Kiyoshi Yamaguchi, Yoichi Furukawa, Toru Suzuki, Toshifumi Inada   +8 more
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