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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"English language -- Pronunciation by foreign speakers."”.
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Effects of Visual Feedback on the Production and Perception of Second Language Speech Sounds : A Comparison of Articulatory and Auditory Instruction
… to which speech sounds are mentally represented by articulatory-motor and/or auditory-acoustic features. This dissertation aims to expand upon the current literature by investigating changes in production and perception following visual feedback training with either articulatory or acoustic …
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Speech patterns of Libyan learners of English as a foreign language : a case study of Libyan students in Malta
… study explores the patterns of speech produced by Libyan learners of English as a foreign language in relation to age factor and its role in the process of English language learning. Also, this study investigates the wrong pronunciation of three English consonant sounds which are /p/, /Ɵ/, and …
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Teaching linguistic mimicry to improve second language pronunciation.
This thesis tests the hypothesis that a whole language approach to ESL (English As A Second Language) pronunciation with emphasis on suprasegementals through the use of linguistic mimicry is more effective than a focus on segmentals in improving native speakers perceptions of accent and …
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The Role of Motivation in Second Language Pronunciation
… the phonological ability of exceptional second language (L2) learners of English and their levels of motivation. This study is the first of its kind to do a large-scale examination of L2 learners whose first languages (L1s) do not belong to the same Indo-European language family as English. …
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Enunciative identity in elementary English as a foreign language
How to improve the skill of speaking English is a major challenge for English learners in Taiwan nowadays. This project focuses on issues of pronunciation as the starting point to examine the problems of learning English, and issues of identity transformation in the language-learning process. Then …
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Enunciative identity in elementary English as a foreign language
How to improve the skill of speaking English is a major challenge for English learners in Taiwan nowadays. This project focuses on issues of pronunciation as the starting point to examine the problems of learning English, and issues of identity transformation in the language-learning process. Then …