Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-10-04DOI: 10.31274/psllt.15694
Nadine deMoras
{"title":"Teaching French Final Consonants and Grammatical Gender of Inanimate Nouns","authors":"Nadine deMoras","doi":"10.31274/psllt.15694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.15694","url":null,"abstract":"Because most final consonants are mute in French but pronounced in English, Anglophones tend to pronounce them in French. The pronunciation of final consonants in French indicates the presence of a final e, which marks the (feminine) grammatical gender of animate nouns in French. Thus, errors in the pronunciation of final consonants are pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary mistakes which risk hindering comprehensibility. In this lesson, participants learn and apply morpho-syntactic and phonetic patterns. After listening and repeating 10 French nouns similar to English nouns ( bracelet, secret …) while looking at the written words, and their corresponding pictures, they are shown pictures of the same words without the written forms to retrieve the nouns, articles and pronunciation. For transfer, participants are given new words with the same phonetic and grammatical (gender) rule so they can apply the rules to novel words, thus demonstrating they have internalized the phonetic and the grammatical rules.","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125780448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.31274/psllt.15692
Agata Guskaroska, John M. Levis
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Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.31274/psllt.15684
Christian Guilbault, Ahmed Alioua
{"title":"GLIDE INSERTION IN FRENCH HIATUS FOR ARABIC LEARNERS OF FRENCH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE","authors":"Christian Guilbault, Ahmed Alioua","doi":"10.31274/psllt.15684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.15684","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117278229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-20DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13345
Xianghui Meng, Difei Lu
{"title":"SUPRASEGMENTAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CHINESE AND INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH INSTRUCTORS IN AN EFL CONTEXT","authors":"Xianghui Meng, Difei Lu","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13345","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126761890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13337
Oxana Kodirova, L. Henrichsen
{"title":"EXPERIENCED ESL TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS USING PHONETIC SYMBOLS IN TEACHING ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION TO ADULT ESL STUDENTS","authors":"Oxana Kodirova, L. Henrichsen","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13337","url":null,"abstract":"Experienced ESL Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Using Phonetic Symbols in Teaching English Pronunciation to Adult ESL Students Oxana Kodirova Department of Linguistics, BYU Master of Arts Different opinions exist about the use of phonetic alphabet symbols in teaching English pronunciation to second language learners. Some authors and researchers believe phonetic symbols can benefit students in many ways; others consider this tool hardly recommendable. However, little empirical research has been done to find out what ESL teachers think about the use of this linguistic tool. Thus, via an online survey this study sought to identify ESL teachers’ attitudes towards the use of phonetic symbols in teaching ESL pronunciation. A total of 120 teachers took the survey and most of them were experienced in teaching pronunciation to adult ESL students. The analyses of qualitative data identified a contradiction between experienced teachers’ opinions and what they practiced in class. On the one side, the teachers had predominantly positive attitudes towards the use of phonetic symbols, and about 80% of them agreed that it was a valuable use of class time. Despite this, many teachers (n=40) did not report using phonetic symbols in their teaching. In addition, though the teachers pointed out enabling student independent learning as the main reason to teach phonetic symbols, only three participants reported that they used phonetic symbols for this purpose. The results of the study suggest that ESL teachers’ lack of training in teaching phonetic symbols to ESL students can be one of the main factors causing this contradiction.","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126446697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13895
S. Bird, J. Leonard, Tess Nolan
{"title":"PRONUNCIATION PATTERNS AMONG L2 HUL’Q’UMI’NUM’ LEARNERS: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS","authors":"S. Bird, J. Leonard, Tess Nolan","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13895","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on a study of pronunciation errors made by adult learners of Hul’q’umi’num’, a Central Salish language known for its rich consonantal system and complex syllable structure. Analyzing a set of 2,915 elicited words, across four pronunciation tests and 35 speakers, we are able to identify several factors contributing to learners’ pronunciation errors; some of these are relatively broad (L1 transfer effects; effects of hyper-articulation), and others are more specific (e.g. familiarity of lexical items and sound/sequences, word, syllable, and stress position, phonetic robustness). Our paper lays the foundation for effective pronunciation instruction in the context of Hul’q’umi’num’ (and Coast Salish) language revitalization, and also contributes to broadening our understanding of L2 pronunciation cross-linguistically.","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116813282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13366
Katherine Yaw, Okim Kang
{"title":"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEARNER BACKGROUND AND PRONUNCIATION GAIN ON IELTS","authors":"Katherine Yaw, Okim Kang","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13366","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116420749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13352
Heather M. Offerman, B. Yelin
{"title":"LEVERAGING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SECOND LANGUAGE SPANISH PRONUNCIATION INSTRUCTION","authors":"Heather M. Offerman, B. Yelin","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13352","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132995913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Virtual PSLLTPub Date : 2022-09-19DOI: 10.31274/psllt.13270
Payam Ghaffarvand Mokari, Maria Lialiou
{"title":"PERCEPTUAL AND ACOUSTIC SIMILARITY OF MODERN GREEK AND STANDARD GERMAN VOWELS: DOES CROSS-LINGUISTIC ACOUSTIC SIMILARITY PREDICT PERCEPTION OF NON-NATIVE VOWELS?","authors":"Payam Ghaffarvand Mokari, Maria Lialiou","doi":"10.31274/psllt.13270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31274/psllt.13270","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405918,"journal":{"name":"Virtual PSLLT","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133245647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}