[HTML][HTML] Web-assisted instruction for teaching and learning EFL phonetics to Spanish learners: Effectiveness, perceptions and challenges

MÁG González, AL Ferreiro - Computers and Education Open, 2024 - Elsevier
Research has established that phonetic training is particularly challenging for learners in
EFL contexts. Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) resources have proved to …

From Research in the Lab to Pedagogical Practices in the EFL Classroom: The Case of Task-Based Pronunciation Teaching

JC Mora, I Mora-Plaza - Education Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
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 …

Exploring the potential of phonetic symbols and keywords as labels for perceptual training

J Fouz-González, JA Mompean - Studies in Second Language …, 2021 - cambridge.org
This study investigated the potential of phonetic symbols and keywords as response labels
for perceptual training of L2 sounds. Seventy-one Spanish learners of English were …

When the Easy Becomes Difficult: Factors Affecting the Acquisition of the English /iː/-/ɪ/ Contrast

J Cebrian, C Gorba, N Gavaldà - Frontiers in Communication, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The degree of similarity between the sounds of a speaker's first and second language (L1
and L2) is believed to determine the likelihood of accurate perception and production of the …

Training the pronunciation of L2 vowels under different conditions: the use of non-lexical materials and masking noise

JC Mora, M Ortega, I Mora-Plaza, C Aliaga-García - Phonetica, 2022 - degruyter.com
The current study extends traditional perceptual high-variability phonetic training (HVPT) in
a foreign language learning context by implementing a comprehensive training paradigm …

Improving Second Language Vowel Production With Hand Gestures Encoding Visible Articulation: Evidence From Picture‐Naming and Paragraph‐Reading Tasks

X Xi, P Li, P Prieto - Language Learning, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates whether audiovisual phonetic training with hand gestures encoding
visible or nonvisible articulation features has a differential impact on learning second …

The contribution of visual articulatory gestures and orthography to speech processing: Evidence from novel word learning.

C Pattamadilok, P Welby, MD Tyler - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Auditory speech appears to be linked to visual articulatory gestures and orthography
through different mechanisms. Yet, both types of visual information have a strong influence …

Factors affecting pronunciation accuracy in english as a foreign language: the case of spanish-catalan intermediate learners

L Rallo - Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo …, 2022 - atlantisjournal.org
In the present study, we investigate the factors that influence pronunciation accuracy by
Spanish-Catalan bilinguals learning English as a foreign language (EFL). A group of …

Investigating the effects of speaker variability on Arabic children's acquisition of English vowels

W Alshangiti, B Evans, M Wibrow - Arab World English Journal, 2023 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
This study investigated whether speaker variability in phonetic training benefits vowel
learnability by Arabic learners of English. Perception training using High-Variability stimuli in …

High variability phonetic training facilitates categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tones in L2 older adults: A link to auditory processing

W Zhang, Y Liao, HT Truong - Language Teaching …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The current study investigated the facilitatory effects of High Variability Phonetic Training
(HVPT) in second language (L2) categorical perception (CP) of Mandarin lexical tones. It …