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Effects of Benchmarking and Peer-Assessment on French Learners' Self-Assessments of Accentedness, Comprehensibility, and Fluency
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Tsunemoto, Aki; Trofimovich, Pavel; Blanchet, Josée; Bertrand, Juliane; Kennedy, Sara – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This study examined the effect of benchmarking and peer-assessment activities on second language (L2) French learners' self-assessments of accentedness, comprehensibility, and fluency. The learners, who included 25 L2 French students enrolled in a 15-week university-level French course, recorded two oral presentations at the beginning and the end…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, French, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Second Language Learning
Oral Corrective Feedback: Pre-Service English as a Second Language Teachers' Beliefs and Practices
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Kartchava, Eva; Gatbonton, Elizabeth; Ammar, Ahlem; Trofimovich, Pavel – Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study investigated the relationship between pre-service English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teachers' pedagogical beliefs and their actual teaching practices. To determine the nature of this relationship, 99 teachers-in-training with little or no teaching experience were asked to complete a questionnaire seeking information about their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Toward a Dynamic View of Second Language Comprehensibility
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Nagle, Charles; Trofimovich, Pavel; Bergeron, Annie – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
This study took a dynamic approach to second language (L2) comprehensibility, examining how listeners construct comprehensibility profiles for L2 Spanish speakers during the listening task and what features enhance or diminish comprehensibility. Listeners were 24 native Spanish speakers who evaluated 2-5 minute audio clips recorded by three…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Profiles, Spanish, Listening Comprehension
Phonological Memory, Attention Control, and Musical Ability: Effects of Individual Differences on Rater Judgments of Second Language Speech
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Isaacs, Talia; Trofimovich, Pavel – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
This study examines how listener judgments of second language speech relate to individual differences in listeners' phonological memory, attention control, and musical ability. Sixty native English listeners (30 music majors, 30 nonmusic majors) rated 40 nonnative speech samples for accentedness, comprehensibility, and fluency. The listeners were…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Music, Second Language Learning, Attention Control
Air Traffic Communication in a Second Language: Implications of Cognitive Factors for Training and Assessment
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Farris, Candace; Trofimovich, Pavel; Segalowitz, Norman; Gatbonton, Elizabeth – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
This study investigated the effects of second language (L2) proficiency and task-induced cognitive workload on participants' speech production and retention of information in an environment designed to simulate the demands faced by pilots receiving instructions from air-traffic controllers. Three groups of 20 participants (one…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Perceptual Paths to Accurate Production of L2 Vowels: The Role of Individual Differences
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Baker, Wendy; Trofimovich, Pavel – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2006
This study investigated whether individual differences in learners' age of arrival (AOA) and length of residence (LOR) in a country where a second language (L2) is spoken determine the relationship between L2 perception and production. In the first experiment, 40 Korean learners of English and 10 native English speakers participated in vowel…
Descriptors: Vowels, English (Second Language), Individual Differences, Age