Language awareness and second language pronunciation: a classroom study

Kennedy, Sara; Trofimovich, Pavel

doi:10.1080/09658416.2010.486439

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“…The findings from previous studies on L2 prosodic awareness suggest that prosodic awareness is positively related to an individual's ability to produce (KENNEDYet al, 2014;KENNEDY;TROFIMOVICH, 2010) and perceive (KENNEDY; BLANCHET, 2014) the L2 accurately. Learners with higher prosodic awareness also improved their pronunciation faster than learners with lower awareness (KENNEDY; BLANCHET, 2014).…”

Section: Prosodic Awareness Research In the First And The Second Langmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…It is likely that regular L2 input is not enough to make the principles governing nuclear stress assignment salient enough to be noticed, as even advanced language learners, who presumably have been extensively exposed to the target language, have not acquired them. Furthermore, previous studies with L2 prosodic awareness suggest that higher prosodic awareness is related to more target-like L2 perception and production, making its fostering a priority in the foreign language classroom (KENNEDY; BLANCHET, 2014;KENNEDY et al, 2014;KENNEDY;TROFIMOVICH, 2010).…”

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“…Nevertheless, children's awareness about the prosody of the L1 has also been under investigation in a small number of studies (e.g., DEFIOR, GUTIÉRREZ-PALMA; CANO-MARÍN, 2012;GOODMAN;LIBENSON;WADE-WOOLLEY, 2010;HOLLIMAN;SHEENY, 2008). L1 prosodic awareness, contrary to L1 phonemic awareness, is not evident in conscious manipulation of speech segments, but in sensitivity to acceptable and unacceptable L1 prosodic patterns (LANCE; SWANSON; PETERSON, 1997), and in the accurate production and perception of these patterns (GOODMAN et al, 2010). Contrary to L1 phonemic awareness which develops through contact with L1 script (TARONE; BIGELOW, 2007), L1 prosodic awareness develops spontaneously through language contact, and infants have been shown to gain sensitivity to L1 prosody from eight months of age onwards (JOHNSON;JUSCZYK, 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most of the studies about L2 prosodic awareness have been carried out by Kennedy and her colleagues in Montréal. Kennedy and Trofimovich (2010) introduced journal writing as a tool to follow English as a second language learners' awareness about aspects of L2 prosody during a pronunciation course focusing on suprasegmentals. The journal entries were assessed for quantitative (language seen as a set of items to be memorized) and qualitative (language seen as a means to communicate) comments.…”

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Examining L1 Brazilian Portuguese speakers' sensitivity to English nuclear stress assignment

Souza¹

2017

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Abstract:The aim of this paper was to examine whether Brazilian Portuguese learners of English are aware of English nuclear stress assignment and whether this awareness is affected by the utterance type. To the date, little research has been carried out about the acquisition of English suprasegmentals by Brazilian Portuguese speakers. Previous studies indicate that the acquisition of target-like nuclear stress assignment is difficult for EFL learners (ZUBIZARRETA; NAVA, 2011). However, non-target-like nuclear stress assignment is likely to lead into communication breakdowns, making its mastering a priority for L2 learners. The participants were 69 L1 Brazilian Portuguese learners of English and 16 native English speakers. Sensitivity to L2 prosody was measured in a perception task which presented low-pass filtered utterances differing in nuclear stress assignment. The results showed that the L1 Brazilian Portuguese speakers possessed less awareness about 1 The research reported in this manuscript is based on the doctoral research project of the author in which Brazilian Portuguese EFL learners' awareness about English phonology was examined in the segmental, phonotactic and suprasegmental domains (KIVISTÖ-DE SOUZA, 2015). The manuscripts reports only on the results of the prosodic domain, whose data was re-analyzed for the purposes of this paper. Linguagem, Belo Horizonte, v.25, n.2, p. 483-514, 2017 484 English nuclear stress assignment than the native English speakers (F(1, 83) =55.95, p <.001, η 2 =.40). Furthermore, awareness was affected by utterance type so that the only test category manifesting above chancelevel performance was deaccented sentences ending in function words (76%). In unaccusative (40%) and deaccented utterances ending in given information (52%), the performance was at or below chance-level. The findings suggest that L1 Brazilian Portuguese learners would benefit from explicit prosodic instruction even at advanced levels of proficiency. Keywords: phonological awareness; prosody; pronunciation. Revista de Estudos daResumo: O objetivo deste artigo foi examinar se os aprendizes brasileiros de inglês têm consciência sobre a alocação do acento nuclear de inglês, e se esta é afetada pelo tipo de sentença. Atualmente, poucos estudos têm sido conduzidos sobre a aquisição suprassegmental do inglês por falantes brasileiros. Os estudos prévios mostram que a aquisição de acento nuclear é difícil para aprendizes de inglês (ZUBIZARRETA; NAVA, 2011). No entanto, o uso adequado do acento nuclear deve ser uma prioridade para aprendizes de LE porque o seu uso inadequado leva a mal-entendidos. Os participantes foram 69 aprendizes brasileiros de inglês e 16 falantes nativos de inglês. A sensibilidade ao acento nuclear na LE foi medida num teste de percepção que apresentou sentenças com filtro passa-baixa que variavam nos padrões de entoação. Os resultados mostraram que os aprendizes brasileiros de inglês manifestavam uma sensibilidade mais baixa ao acento nuclear de inglês que os falantes nativos de inglê...

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Section: Prosodic Awareness Research In the First And The Second Langmentioning

confidence: 82%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Prosodic Awareness Research In the First And The Second Langmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Prosodic Awareness Research In the First And The Second Langmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Examining L1 Brazilian Portuguese speakers' sensitivity to English nuclear stress assignment

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2017

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“…However, because of the large methodological differences between these studies in terms of objectives, as well as type and duration of instruction, much more studies are still needed to show how pronunciation instruction can improve learners' pronunciation (Thomson and Derwing, 2015). For example, while some studies focused on the effect of teaching segmentals (e.g., Saito, 2011;Kissling, 2013) on L2 pronunciation, others focused on teaching suprasegmentals (Derwing et al, 1997;Kennedy and Trofimovich, 2010;Saalfeld, 2011).…”

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The effects of explicit pronunciation instruction on the degree of perceived foreign accent in the speech of EFL learners

Algethami

2017

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This paper reports on a study that attempted to examine the effect of explicit pronunciation instruction of some English segments (individual sounds) on the degree of perceived foreign accent in EFL Arab learners’ speech. Nine Arab learners of English in an EFL (English as a foreign language) setting were assigned to two groups, experimental and control. Five utterances loaded with the taught segments were collected from both groups before and after instruction. While the experimental group received instruction on these segments, the control group did not. 13 native English listeners were recruited to rate all the elicited sentences for the degree of perceived foreign accent. The results did not show any effect of explicit pronunciation instruction on the degree of perceived foreign accent, as there were no differences between the ratings before and after the instruction.

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History of ESL Pronunciation Teaching

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Language awareness and second language pronunciation: a classroom study

Cited by 82 publications

References 23 publications

Examining L1 Brazilian Portuguese speakers' sensitivity to English nuclear stress assignment

Examining L1 Brazilian Portuguese speakers' sensitivity to English nuclear stress assignment

The effects of explicit pronunciation instruction on the degree of perceived foreign accent in the speech of EFL learners

History of ESL Pronunciation Teaching

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