Pronunciation strategies of advanced ESOL learners

The influence of pronunciation learning strategies on mastering English vowels

“…Studies on pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) may be divided into the studies which focused on the identification and description of PLS (Drodzia -Szelest, 1997;Naiman, Frohlich, Stern, & Todesco, 1978;Osborne, 2003;Pawlak, 2006Pawlak, , 2008Wrembel, 2008), the studies which resulted in the classification of PLS (Eckstein, 2007;Peterson, 2000) and the studies which involved PLS training (Bukowski, 2004;Varasarin, 2007). The study presented in this paper focuses on the relationship between learning pronunciation and strategies used to master this aspect of the target language.…”

On the acquisition of French speech rhythm in a multilingual classroom: Evidence from linguistic and extra- linguistic data

“…(Kvale 2007), with special emphasis given to the learners' attitudes towards their languages as well as to their individual degree of metalinguistic and phonological awareness. 9 With three of these speakers, we additionally carried out so-called think-aloud protocols (Osburne 2003) that aimed at getting information on the learners' perception and their knowledge about their own speech production in the foreign language French. To that end, the participants were first asked to distinguish an L1 from an L2 recording by explaining their decision.…”

Good English Pronunciation Users and Their Pronunciation Learning Strategies

“…Although PLS research and classifications are still in their infancy, some attempts to approach PLS categorisation have been made (Eckstein, 2007;Osburne, 2003;Pawlak, 2010;Peterson, 2000). For example, Peterson (2000) has followed Oxford's (1990) taxonomy, dividing PLS into memory, cognitive, compensation, metacognitive, affective and social, subsuming 12 PLS and 43 pronunciation learning tactics.…”

“…The present study follows this taxonomy. Osburne (2003) has proposed 7 PLS, such as memory and imitation, paralanguage, individual words, global articulatory gesture, prosody and individual sounds. Eckstein (2007) has placed PLS within Kolb's learning cycle and its equivalent four pronunciation acquisition stages, whereas Pawlak (2010) has proposed four major PLS categories: cognitive, metacognitive, affective and social.…”

“…Cohen & Macaro, 2007). However, relatively little is known about strategies for learning to pronounce English as a foreign language (Berkil, 2009;Eckstein, 2007;Osburne, 2003;Pawlak, 2008Pawlak, , 2010Pawlak, , 2011Peterson, 2000). Even less is known about the types of pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) successful or good pronunciation users (GPU) deploy (Tominaga, 2009).…”