{"title":"Effects of explicit phonetics instruction and a podcasting project on L2 Spanish vowel quality\u0000 production","authors":"Alyssa Martoccio","doi":"10.1075/jslp.22006.mar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.22006.mar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The current study tested changes in the production of the Spanish vowels /a e i o u/ over a semester of study in\u0000 intermediate second language Spanish learners (first language English) enrolled in either a Spanish phonetics\u0000 (n = 17) or conversation (n = 12) course. All participants completed an oral text reading task\u0000 at pretest and posttest time and a podcasting project throughout the semester, but only students in the phonetics course received\u0000 explicit phonetics instruction. Results found group by time change for F2 values of /a/ and /e/, and for both changes, the\u0000 instructed group’s values but not those of the uninstructed group were more nativelike at posttest time. These results show\u0000 improvement over time on vowel quality production by the instructed group, and descriptive results found positive attitudes by\u0000 both groups toward the project and other promising vowel production changes by the uninstructed group.","PeriodicalId":91766,"journal":{"name":"Journal of second language pronunciation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46261119","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}