Author : Ocke-Schwen Bohn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027219732
Deals with the language experience in second language speech learning
Author : Ratree Wayland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108882366
Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology.
Author : Parvaneh Tavakoli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108603432
Second language (L2) fluency is an exciting and fast-moving field of research, with clear practical applications in language teaching. This book provides a lively overview of the current advances in the field of L2 fluency, and connects the theory to practice, presenting a hands-on approach to using fluency research across a range of different language-related professions. The authors introduce an innovative multidisciplinary perspective, which brings together research into cognitive and social factors, to understand fluency as a dynamic variable in language performance, connecting learner-internal factors such as speech processing and automaticity, to external factors such as task demands, language testing, and pragmatic interactional demands in communication. Bringing a much-needed multidisciplinary and novel approach to understanding the complex nature of L2 speech fluency, this book provides researchers, students and language professionals with both the theoretical insights and practical tools required to understand and research how fluency in a second language develops.
Author : Jette G. Hansen Edwards
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027241474
This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use an L2 sound system. In addition, it spans both theory and application in L2 phonology. The book is divided into three parts, with each section unified by broad thematic content: Part I, Theoretical Issues and Frameworks in L2 Phonology, lays the groundwork for examining L2 phonological acquisition. Part II, Second Language Speech Perception and Production, examines these two aspects of L2 speech in more detail. Finally, Part III, Technology, Training, and Curriculum, bridges the gap between theory and practice. Each chapter examines theoretical frameworks, major research findings (both classic and recent), methodological issues and choices for conducting research in a particular area of L2 phonology, and major implications of the research findings for more general models of language acquisition and/or pedagogy.
Author : Laura Colantoni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110701834X
This textbook focuses on second language speech - how individuals perceive and produce the sounds of their second language.
Author : Carmen Muñoz
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847698077
This volume brings together studies dealing with second language learning in contexts that provide intensive exposure to the target language. In doing so, it highlights the role of intensive exposure as a critical distinctive characteristic in the comparison of learning processes and outcomes from different learning contexts: naturalistic and foreign language instruction, stay abroad and at home, and extensive and intensive instruction programmes. The different chapters represent a wide range of learning contexts and types of learning, as well as different approaches that yield much needed evidence on the role of context of acquisition in second language learning.
Author : Hossein Nassaji
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110866203X
Bringing together state-of-the-art chapters written by leading scholars, this volume provides a comprehensive reference on theory and research of corrective feedback. It will be a key resource for researchers, graduate students, teachers and teacher educators who are interested in the role of feedback in second language teaching and learning.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 0309153867
The Workshop on the Role of Language in School Learning: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap was held to explore three questions: What is known about the conditions that affect language development? What are the effects of early language development on school achievement? What instructional approaches help students meet school demands for language and reading comprehension? Of particular interest was the degree to which group differences in school achievement might be attributed to language differences, and whether language-related instruction might help to close gaps in achievement by helping students cope with language-intensive subject matter especially after the 3rd grade. The workshop provided a forum for researchers and practitioners to review and discuss relevant research findings from varied perspectives. The disciplines and professions represented included: language development, child development, cognitive psychology, linguistics, reading, educationally disadvantaged student populations, literacy in content areas (math, science, social studies), and teacher education. The aim of the meeting was not to reach consensus or provide recommendations, but rather to offer expert insight into the issues that surround the study of language, academic learning, and achievement gaps, and to gather varied viewpoints on what available research findings might imply for future research and practice. This book summarizes and synthesizes two days of workshop presentations and discussion.
Author : Alene Moyer
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853597176
This work critically addresses the age debate in second language acquisition studies, presenting an in-depth study of factors that predict foreign accent. Quantitative and qualitative analyses confirm that cognitive, social, and psychological factors contribute to attainment, and that biological influences must therefore be considered alongside these essential aspects of learner experience.
Author : Ubiratã Kickhöfel Alves
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110736128
In the field of second language (L2) acquisition, the number of studies focusing on L2 pronunciation instruction and perceptual/production training has increased as new classroom methodologies have been proposed and new goals for L2 pronunciation have been set. This book brings together different approaches to L2 pronunciation research in the classroom or in the language laboratory. 13 chapters, written by well-known researchers focusing on a variety of first and target languages, are divided into four parts: Pronunciation development and intelligibility: implications for teaching and training studies; L2 pronunciation teaching; L2 pronunciation training: implications for the classroom; and Pronunciation in the laboratory: High Variability Phonetic Training. Intended for researchers in the fields of second language acquisition, phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, speech therapies, speech technology, as well as second language teaching, this book not only summarizes the current research questions on L2 pronunciation teaching and training, but also predicts future scenarios for both researchers and practitioners in the field.
