Second language (L2) learning is widely studied in adult learners. This study was conducted in order to see how auditory training affects elderly learners’ L2 speech production and whether linguistically oriented seniors can benefit more from training compared to seniors not showing special interest in foreign languages. Hence, we studied seniors recruited from language courses and seniors with...

most of the studies on the key word method of second/foreign language vocabulary learning have been based on the evidence from laboratory experiments and have primarily involved the use of english key words to learn the vocabularies of other languages. furthermore, comparatively quite limited number of such studies is done in authentic classroom contexts. the present study inquired into the eff...

The paper presents the Loquendo TTS approach to mixedlanguage speech synthesis, offering a range of options to face the various situations where texts may occur in different languages or embedding foreign phrases. The most challenging target is to make a monolingual TTS voice read a foreign language text. The adopted Foreign Pronunciation Strategy here discussed allows mixing phonetic transcrip...