Second Language Comprehensibility Revisited: Investigating the Effects of Learner Background Dustin Crowther The current study investigated first language (L1) effects on listener judgment of comprehensibility and accentedness in second language (L2) speech. The participants were 60 university-level adult speakers of English from four L1 backgrounds (Chinese, Romance, Hindi, Farsi), with 15 spe...

The paper presents the algorithm of developing speech components aimed to be implemented into educational systems with elements of acoustic feedback. Such systems are demanded in the domain of distant education as far as foreign language teaching and pronunciation training is concerned. The need of such systems is evident because human teacher is not always at hand when the student needs phonet...

Over the last few years, the realm of foreign language learning has witnessed an abundance of research concerning the effectiveness of corrective feedback on the acquisition of grammatical features, with the study of other target language subsystems, such as pronunciation, being few and far between. In order to bridge this gap, the present study intended to investigate and compare the immediate...

This paper reports on the continued activities towards the development of a computer-aided language learning (CALL) system for German learners of Mandarin. In this experiment the method for detecting the pronunciation errors which was presented in a previous experiment was tested on two different databases in order to study the effect of complexity of corpus on the results of pronunciation erro...

In light of the significant role of teachers in pronunciation, we conducted a questionnaire survey in the summer of 2015 in an attempt to reveal the problem areas in English pronunciation faced by Japanese teachers of English. A total of 100 public junior high school teachers in Tokyo responded to the survey. The preliminary analysis revealed positive correlations between “emphasis on pronuncia...

Many people often struggle to master the pronunciation of foreign languages without much success. One of the reasons why L2 learners are not successful is because teaching pronunciation in the classroom is usually marginalized. With the advent of computers, this problem may partially have been overcome, due to the fact that many different types of systems and software for autonomous learning ha...

This research applies dialectometric methods to purely syntactic dialect data. It will be shown that there is geographic cohesion in syntactic variation when viewed in the aggregate. The amount of syntactic variation which can be accounted for by geography will be determined. Dialectometric techniques will be used to develop an additive measure of syntactic differences. Multidimensional scaling...

This study aims to find the proper teaching method through Integrated English Thematic Textbooks for Young Students Based on Local Content with a Multiliterative Approach Pronunciation and Vocabulary Mastery. The used quasi-experimental design using Experimental control class. research trials were conducted students from various educational programs at SD xyz 2020/2021 school year consisting of...

This investigation discusses the implementation of computerbased teaching of Spanish pronunciation, especially intonation, in the classroom. It examines the potential and the actual use of a technologically-based system, and the results of such a system in the improvement of students' pronunciation in one semester of instruction. The effects of instructional technology were studied through reco...

Reading is essential to develop while learning English as a foreign language. Thus, this study focuses on aiding children enhance reading by first teaching them letter sounds instead of names. The goal teach how recognize and pronounce individual letters; if they can do so, combine those with reading. Additionally, mitigate the interference from sound L1 L2 in some words. method used answer res...