Pronouncing English clusters may be challenging for Arab English learners. Technology-
based strategies can be used to improve their pronunciation of English consonant clusters …

Input and context-related factors identified by research as key success variables in L2
pronunciation development in immersion contexts play a very modest role in instructed …

Adults differ in the ease with which they acquire lexical tones in a non-native language.
Individual differences have been attributed to several factors, such as the role that pitch …

The current study extends traditional perceptual high-variability phonetic training (HVPT) in
a foreign language learning context by implementing a comprehensive training paradigm …

This chapter reports a study on English as a foreign language (EFL) students' perceptions of
pronunciation corrective feedback (PCF) in the Zoom-assisted classroom. Data were …

This study presents a reanalysis of existing data to investigate whether a relationship
between perception and production abilities regarding a challenging second-language (L2) …

Twenty-five years ago, the publication of an article by Pallier, Colomé and Sebastián-Gallés
(2001) launched a new and rapidly evolving research program on how second language …

Establishing phonologically robust lexical representations in a second language (L2) is
challenging, and even more so for words containing phones in phonological contrasts that …

Purpose: Although variability of training materials has the potential to benefit the learning of
lexical tones, the benefit is contingent on an individual's pitch aptitude. Previous studies did …

Abstract Encoding second-language (L2) phonological contrasts into lexical representations
is known to be challenging above and beyond the perceptual difficulties that these contrasts …