Inspirations of Automatic Speech Production Research to Foreign Language Teaching

Abstract

This paper is about the promotion to foreign language teaching from the automatic speech production research in syntactic priming experiment, which use E-prime2.0 and its SR-Box to college students to do online experiment. The research findings indicate that among many personal factors, language proficiency, especially L2 level, is significantly correlated with L2 speech production of Chinese-English imbalanced bilinguals. In Chinese-English imbalanced bilinguals, the higher level shows the better the priming effect. That is, because of the cascade of priming produced by external stimulation, the formation of procedural automatic processing is affected by L2 level (the perfection of mental lexicon and declarative rule system). The following educational suggestions and research innovations could be put forward to the readers from the four aspects of repeated practice, listening training, knowledge training and first language training.