It is well established that early bilinguals can accurately produce and perceive sounds in both of their languages (e.g. Flege and Eefting, 1987, Sundara, Polk, and Baum, 2006; but see also below). This applies both to sounds that occur in only one of the two languages and to sounds that are common to both but differ at the phonetic level. For example, the trilled /r/ in Spanish and the approxi...

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the global spread of english, co-occurring with globalization, has generated new views towards some issues in english language teaching, one of which being the place of home culture versus foreign language culture in english language classes. the following study aimed to compare the viewpoint of three groups, i.e. language teachers, language learners and parents regarding the role of home cultu...