Second-Language Learners’ Identification of Target-Language Phonemes: A Short-Term Phonetic Training Study
| Autor: | Juli Cebrian, Angélica Carlet |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | The Canadian Modern Language Review. 70:474-499 |
| ISSN: | 1710-1131 0008-4506 |
| Popis: | This study examined the effect of short-term high-variability phonetic training on the perception of English /b/, /v/, /d/, /ð/, /ae/, /^/, /i/, and /i / by Catalan/Spanish bilinguals learning English as a foreign language. Sixteen English-major undergraduates were tested before and after undergoing a four-session perceptual training program involving a series of discrimination and identification tasks. Although some scores were already high at pre-test, there was improvement from pre-test to post-test, and this improvement generalized to novel words and a novel talker. An effect of word frequency was observed, but this effect was found to decrease after training. The results show that relatively advanced foreign-language learners in an instructional setting may improve in perception as a result of short-term high-variability phonetic training. The implications of these findings for the teaching of pronunciation are discussed. Resume: Cette etude vise a analyser l’effet d’un entrainement phonetique de grande variabilite et de courte duree sur la perception des sons /b/, /v/, /d/, /ð/, /ae/, /^/,/i/ et /i / de l’anglais par des bilingues de catalan et espagnol qui apprennent l’anglais comme langue etrangere. Seize etudiants universitaires d’Etudes Anglaises ont ete testes avant et apres avoir subi un programme d’entrainement de perception de quatre sessions qui consistait en une serie de tâches de discrimination et d’identification. Bien que certains resultats etaient deja eleves lors du pre-test, il s’est produit une amelioration entre le pre-test et le post-test, et cette amelioration s’est generalisee a des nouveaux mots et a un nouveau locuteur. Un effet de la frequence des mots a ete observe, mais cet effet a diminue apres l’entrainement. Les resultats montrent que des apprenants de langue etrangere relativement avances dans un contexte d’apprentissage formel peuvent ameliorer la perception de sons etrangers grâce a un entrainement phonetique de grande variabilite et de courte duree. Les implications de ces resultats pour l’enseignement de la prononciation sont abordees. |
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