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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
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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
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The current study aimed to examine how instruction can impact the global, segmental, prosodic, and temporal qualities of second language (L2) oral ability in foreign language (FL) settings (i.e., a few hours of target language input per week). Spontaneous speech was elicited via a timed picture description task from 56 Japanese freshman college students who had studied English through FL instruction from Grades 7 to 12 without any experience abroad. The tokens were rated for global accentedness and then submitted to segmental, prosodic, and temporal analyses. According to statistical analyses, (a) the participants' oral performance widely varied in relation to the length and focus of FL instruction, the frequency of their conversations in the L2, and aptitude; and (b) their diverse proficiency levels were predicted in particular by the amount of extra FL activities inside (i.e., pronunciation training) and outside (i.e., cram school) of high school (but not junior high) classrooms. The results in turn suggest that whereas extensive FL instruction (>875 hr) itself does make some difference in L2 oral ability development, its pedagogical potential can be increased by how students optimize their most immediate FL experience beyond the regular syllabus.
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Applied Linguistics and Communication (to 2020)
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716415000259 https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13314/2/13314.pdf https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13314/
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The discourse of culture and identity in national and transnational contexts
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Acculturation as the key to the ultimate attainment? The case of Polish-English bilinguals in the UK
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The role of age of acquisition in late second language oral proficiency attainment
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Communicative focus on second language phonetic form: Teaching Japanese learners to perceive and produce English /ɹ/ without explicit instruction
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Vocabulary explanations in CLIL classrooms: a conversation analysis perspective
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Interculturality: reconceptualising cultural memberships and identities through translanguaging practice
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Language policy and planning in international organisations
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From obscure echo to language of the heart: multilinguals' language choices for (emotional) inner speech
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Attitudes towards foreign accents among adult multilingual language users
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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
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In dialogue: contesting the politics of globalization in Hong Kong literature in English
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Les Français Libres, la politique dite « de Brazzaville » et les perspectives d’avenir de l’Union française vues de 1944-46
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Food fight: conflicting language ideologies in English and French news and social media
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