The advance of educational technologies and digital devices have made computer-assisted
language learning (CALL) an active interdisciplinary field with increasing research potential …

The ubiquitous impacts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have profoundly changed
the education sector and marked research interest in online or blended learning can be …

This study examines the putative benefits of explicit phonetic instruction, high variability
phonetic training, and their effects on adult nonnative speakers' Mandarin tone productions …

Adults often encounter difficulty perceiving and processing sounds of a second language
(L2). In order to acquire word-meaning mappings, learners need to determine what the …

Mandarin Chinese tones are known to be difficult for second language learners. A large
body of research has examined non-native perception of tones, and may provide useful and …

Second language listening scholars have advocated for greater instructional emphasis on
discrete listening sub-skills, including the ability to perceive suprasegmental features and …

In the contexts of language learning and music processing, hand gestures conveying
acoustic information visually influence perception of speech and non-speech sounds …

This chapter provides an overview of major theories and findings in the field of second
language (L2) phonetics and phonology. Four main conceptual frameworks are discussed …

To test the effects of talker variability and explicit instruction on the statistical learning of
lexical tone, 80 monolingual English listeners were taught an artificial language that …

Background It remains unclear how embodiment and conceptual metaphor play a role in
second language (L2) lexical tone learning. Aims The present study aimed to examine the …