autosegmental-metrical (am) phonology distinguishes two types of accents (stresses), namely: lexical accent and pitch accent. the present study offers an acoustic analysis of the prosodic feature, pitch accent, in the persian speech of persian speakers who are fluent in english as a second language (english instructors). language interference has often been dealt with as the effect of firs lang...

Throughout much of the history research into second language acquisition (SLA), role learners’ first (L1) has been a hotly debated issue. Prodromou (2000) refers to mother tongue as ‘skeleton in closet’, while Gabrielatos (2001) calls it ‘bone contention’. Such views are but mere reflection different methodological shifts English Language Teaching, which have brought about new and outlooks on t...

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This study used eye tracking to investigate the allocation of attention to multimodal stimuli during an incidental learning situation, as well as its impact on subsequent explicit learning. Participants were exposed to foreign language (FL) auditory words on their own, in conjunction with written native language (NL) translations, or with both written NL translations and pictures. Incidental ac...