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Foreign Accents in Polish: Non-native Speakers’ and Native Listeners’ Views [PDF]

, 2013
to draw implications for the phonetic training of foreigners who undertake to learn ...
Abelin, Abelin, Boyd, Boyd, Bresnahan, Bresnahan, Derwing, Derwing, Doel, Doel, Gonet, Gonet, Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska, Lindemann, Lindemann, Lippi, Lippi, Lublin, Lublin, Marek Radomski, Mareuil, Mareuil, Missaglia, Missaglia, Munro, Munro, Müller, Müller, Rifkin, Rifkin, Said, Said, Schairer, Schairer, Szpyra, Szpyra, Szpyra, Szpyra, Szpyra, Szpyra, Szpyra, Szpyra   +41 more
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Deconstructing comprehensibility: identifying the linguistic influences on listeners' L2 comprehensibility ratings [PDF]

, 2012
Comprehensibility, a major concept in second language (L2) pronunciation research that denotes listeners’ perceptions of how easily they understand L2 speech, is central to interlocutors’ communicative success in real-world contexts.
Isaacs, T, Trofimovich, P
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The Bold and the Beautiful: How Aspects of Personality Affect Foreign Language Pronunciation [PDF]

, 2014
In the main study, a group of Polish learners of English completed a number of mimicry tasks in three languages: Italian, Dutch and Chinese, as well as a narration task in English.
Arnold, Arnold, Baran, Baran, Carroll, Carroll, Couper, Couper, Couper, Couper, Derwing, Derwing, Dogil, Dogil, Dornyei, Dornyei, Ganschow, Ganschow, Hinton, Hinton, Hinton, Hinton, Horwitz, Horwitz, Hu, Hu, Jilka, Jilka, Martin Hinton, Piske, Piske, Purcell, Purcell, Reiterer, Reiterer, Singleton, Singleton   +36 more
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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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Pronunciation acquisition patterns of learners with different starting levels [PDF]

, 2015
This study described the results of an investigation into the effect of an intensive 12-week pronunciation course in British English which 30 Dutch female 1st-year university students of English took.
Adank, Adank, Boersma, Boersma, Collins, Collins, De France, De France, Deterding, Deterding, Dick Smakman, Gussenhoven, Gussenhoven, Hoorn, Hoorn, Iseli, Iseli, James, James, Kolb, Kolb, Leite, Leite, Pashler, Pashler, Pennington, Pennington, Purcell, Purcell, Rietveld, Rietveld, Smakman, Smakman, Smakman, Smakman, Smakman, Smakman, Thomas De France, Van, Van, Van, Van, Waugh, Waugh   +43 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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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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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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Arabic language-learning strategy preferences among undergraduate students [PDF]

, 2019
This study elicited Arabic students’ perceptions regarding their language-learning strategy preferences (LLSPs). A sample of 120 undergraduate Arabic students participated. Data were collected through a questionnaire and interviews.
Brosh, Hezi Y.
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Good English Pronunciation Users and their Pronunciation Learning Strategies [PDF]

, 2015
The study investigates pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) deployed by those with good English pronunciation, as well as their beliefs concerning the variables that affect pronunciation competence.
Szyszka, Magdalena
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