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Uchihara, Takumi; Webb, Stuart; Saito, Kazuya; Trofimovich, Pavel – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Eighty Japanese learners of English as a foreign language encountered 40 target words in one of four experimental conditions (three encounters, six encounters, three encounters with talker variability, and six encounters with talker variability). A picture-naming test was conducted three times (pretest, immediate posttest, and delayed posttest)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Oral Language
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Reid, Kym Taylor; Trofimovich, Pavel; O'Brien, Mary Grantham – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
This study examined whether social bias manipulation can influence how naïve multiage listeners evaluate second language (L2) speech. Sixty native English-speaking listeners (Montreal residents) rated audio recordings of 40 Quebec French speakers of L2 English for five dimensions of oral performance (accentedness, comprehensibility, segmental…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Pronunciation, English (Second Language)