This paper examines the perspectives of Polish university students English (n=110) on selected aspects after pronunciation instruction they underwent during their phonetics course. It shows qualitative questionnaire results obtained by means four open-ended statements. sheds light on: accent preference, reasons why favoured and disfavoured course expectations from tutor. The reported a positive...

The present study investigates the relative contribution of Nativeness vs. Intelligibility approach in prosody instruction for developing English speaking skills by Iranian interpreter trainees. Three groups student interpreters were formed. Participants assigned to at random. skill pretest scores revealed that three homogeneous before starting training program. Control group listened authentic...

critical thinking has accompanied man since his creation. man steps toward critical thinking when he starts to evaluate a matter logically. today in order to develop critical thinking and the importance of placing it in scientific fields, several researches have been carried out. recently, babamohadi and khalili (2004) found that there is a significant difference between freshman and senior stu...

Previous research revealed remarkable flexibility of native and non-native listeners’ perceptual system, i.e., native and non-native phonetic category boundaries can be quickly recalibrated in the face of ambiguous input. The present study investigates the limitations of the flexibility of the non-native perceptual system. In two lexically-guided perceptual learning experiments, Dutch listeners...

Abstract The preference for native species, along with its concomitant antipathy toward non-natives, has been increasingly criticized as incoherent, obsolete, xenophobic, misanthropic, uncompassionate, and antithetical to conservation. This essay explores these criticisms. It articulates an ecological conception of nativeness that distinguishes non-native species both from human-introduced inva...