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What types of curriculum best support secondary school aged Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)?

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What types of curriculum best support secondary school aged Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)?

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Amanda Faz

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Theater-Based Pedagogy and its Impact on Vocabulary Development, Pronunciation/Accentedness, and Pragmatic Awareness of English Learners

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Theater-Based Pedagogy and its Impact on Vocabulary Development, Pronunciation/Accentedness, and Pragmatic Awareness of English Learners

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jIRFsyWwijfsBRM1BCqQg2Au8gwf1VBcN5xMErgT5Ok/edit?usp=sharing

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What factors affect foreign-accented speech?

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What factors affect foreign-accented speech?

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Syntactic Transfer: Effects of Age and Native Language on Second Language Acquisition

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Does extensive reading promote the learning of vocabulary in L2?
Nicole Black

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What are methods for increasing phonemic awareness in English Learners beginning to read?
Mary Fischer

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What are the benefits of Linguistically Responsive Teaching for emergent bilinguals and how do educators implement this pedagogy? -Jenna Kotula

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Which linguistic features  makes L2 English speech comprehensible?

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Which linguistic features  makes L2 English speech comprehensible?

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by Caroline J. Cherry
My research question: which linguistic factors most influence the comprehensibility of L2 English speech? The following are some highlights of what I learned:

1.       Consonant errors generally cause more problems with comprehensibility than vowel errors or syllabic structure errors, but with some caveats.

◊ Coda [k] deletion in “ask her” was considered to be more accented than coda [v] deletion in “five thick.” The most accented sounds were those with a nonnative sound, such as the retroflex [ɭ] and the trill [r]; however, the native consonant phonemes, such as [θ]> [f] were rated as relatively less accented. (Gao Z., & Weinberger, S., 2018.)

To hear these particular sounds, visit this interactive IPA chart below.

2.       For the most part, vowel pronunciation errors did not affect comprehensibility as much as consonant errors, with the following exceptions:

◊ Sounds with cluster internal (vowel) epenthesis (i.e. [pʰl] to [pʰəl]) and those with coda epenthesis (i.e. [aesk] > [aeskə] sounded more accented than sounds with consonant errors. (Gao Z., & Weinberger, S., 2018.)

3.    Comprehensibility was related to all linguistic domains: segmental, prosodic, temporal, lexical, and grammatical analysis. However, the most “accented” speech was mostly associated with segmental sounds. (Saito, K., & Trofimovich, P., & Isaacs, T., 2016.)

The connections of this research to what I’ve learned in class center on realizing the importance of developing a basic understanding of IPA symbols, which I can connect with my students' speech, and help correct it if comprehensibility is negatively impacted.

Also, because all of my students share the same L1, I'm able to see patterns with common pronunciation errors affecting comprehensibility that almost all of my students exhibit, such as vowel epenthesis and coda consonant deletion, especially with the velar and alveolar stops.

References

Gao, Z., & Weinberger, S. (2018). Which phonetic features should pronunciation Instructions focus on? An evaluation on the accentedness of segmental/syllable errors in L2 speech, Research in Language, 16(2), 135-154. doi: https://doi.org/10.2478/rela-2018-0012

SAITO, K., TROFIMOVICH, P., & ISAACS, T. (2016). Second language speech production: Investigating linguistic correlates of comprehensibility and accentedness for learners at different ability levels. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37(2), 217-240. doi:10.1017/S0142716414000502.

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The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a set of symbols that linguists use to describe the sounds of spoken languages.

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What are best practices for L2 vocabulary instruction?
Rebecca Maki
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Implicit and Explicit Teaching (Frederick)

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Implicit and Explicit Teaching (Frederick)

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Audio from loom to help with the mind map. Six minutes.
https://www.useloom.com/share/41d0296e9215497aac73f77e8625747e