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Experience effects on the development of late second language learners’ oral proficiency
Saito, Kazuya. - : Wiley, 2015
Abstract: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of language experience—operationalized as length of residence—on late second language learners. Data collected from 65 participants consists of three groups of Japanese learners of English (n = 13 Short-, Mid-, Long-LOR Groups, respectively) and two groups of baseline speakers (n = 13 for inexperienced Japanese speakers and native English speakers, respectively). The global quality of their spontaneous speech production was initially judged by 10 native speaking raters of English based on accentedness (linguistic nativelikeness) and comprehensibility (ease of understanding), and then submitted to segmental, prosodic, temporal, lexical, and grammatical analyses. According to the results, LOR was generally predictive of improved L2 comprehensibility as a result of the continuous development of good prosody, optimal speech rate, and proper lexicogrammar usage, while a great amount of L2 experience was required to enhance accentedness, which entailed refined segmental accuracy, vocabulary richness, and grammatical complexity. These results, in turn, suggest L2 learners continue to improve L2 oral proficiency over an extensive period of L2 immersion (e.g., 6 years of LOR), and they do so by paying selective attention to certain linguistic domains closely linked to comprehensibility—but not necessarily relevant to accentedness—for the purpose of successful L2 communication.
Keyword: Applied Linguistics and Communication (to 2020)
URL: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13308/
https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12120
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Lateral (morpho)syntactic transfer: An empirical investigation into the positive and negative influences of French on L1 English learners of Spanish within an instructed language-learning environment
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Mind the gap: what code-switching in literature can teach us about code-switching
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Does a speaking task affect second language comprehensibility?
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Second language comprehensibility revisited: investigating the effects of learner background
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Research, theory and practice in L2 phonology: a review and directions for the future
Pennington, Martha. - : Springer, 2015
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Developing second language oral ability in foreign language classrooms: the role of the length and focus of instruction and individual differences
Saito, Kazuya; Hanzawa, K.. - : Cambridge Journals, 2015
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The discourse of culture and identity in national and transnational contexts
Jenks, C.; Lou, Jackie Jia; Bhatia, A.. - : Routledge, 2015
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Acculturation as the key to the ultimate attainment? The case of Polish-English bilinguals in the UK
Hammer, K.; Dewaele, Jean-Marc. - : Multilingual Matters, 2015
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The role of age of acquisition in late second language oral proficiency attainment
Saito, Kazuya. - : Cambridge Journals, 2015
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Communicative focus on second language phonetic form: Teaching Japanese learners to perceive and produce English /ɹ/ without explicit instruction
Saito, Kazuya. - : Cambridge Journals, 2015
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Vocabulary explanations in CLIL classrooms: a conversation analysis perspective
Morton, Thomas. - : Taylor & Francis, 2015
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Interculturality: reconceptualising cultural memberships and identities through translanguaging practice
Zhu, Hua. - : Routledge, 2015
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Language policy and planning in international organisations
McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa. - : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015
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From obscure echo to language of the heart: multilinguals' language choices for (emotional) inner speech
Dewaele, Jean-Marc. - : Elsevier, 2015
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Code-switching and multilingualism in literature
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Attitudes towards foreign accents among adult multilingual language users
McCloskey, James; Dewaele, Jean-Marc. - : Taylor & Francis, 2015
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The discursive construction of Europeanness : a transnational perspective
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Foreign language classroom anxiety of Arab learners of English: the effect of personality, linguistic and sociobiographical variables
Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Al-Saraj, T.. - : Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland, 2015
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The role of code-switching in bilingual creativity
Kharkhurin, A.V.; Li, Wei. - : Taylor and Francis, 2015
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