NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Who Do Learners of English as a Lingua Franca Want to Sound Like? English Speaker Role Models and Envisioned Selves in Imagined Communities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lilia Savova; Maryam Azarnoosh – TESOL Journal, 2024
To examine speaker role models (SRMs) in second language acquisition (SLA), this study explored the sociolinguistic "English as a lingua franca" (ELF) perspective targeting international intelligibility. Thus, it examined the way ELF learners align with self-selected English speakers and anonymous (audio-recorded) English speakers as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Role Models, Self Concept
Persian ITAs and Speech Comprehensibility: Using CAPT for Pronunciation Improvement
Direct linkDirect link
Rouhollahi, Amir – ProQuest LLC, 2023
It has been shown in the past that International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) struggle with phonological and communication issues in the classroom (Pickering, 1999; 2001). This issue leads to misunderstandings between ITAs and undergraduate students, frustrating them both as well as the parents of the students and the departments. However, studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Teaching Assistants, Computer Assisted Instruction
Developing Interpreter Trainees' Speech Comprehensibility: Does Nativeness of the Instructor Matter?
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Mahmood Yenkimaleki; Vincent J. van Heuven – TESL-EJ, 2024
This study examines the effect of native "vs." non-native prosody instruction on developing interpreter trainees' speech comprehensibility in English as a foreign language (EFL) using a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest design. Twenty-three groups of 28 interpreter trainees at a University in Iran (six different branches) took part in…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction