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Rose, Céline; McBride, Adam F. – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
As an overwhelming amount of research has demonstrated that educator preparation programs do not adequately prepare instructors to teach pronunciation, this study aims to help teachers of foreign languages to implement and improve pronunciation instruction (PI) in their classroom by adapting PACE (Presentation, Attention, Co-construction, and…
Descriptors: French, Pronunciation, Speech Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Hayes-Harb, Rachel; Barrios, Shannon – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
The Hindi consonant inventory, which includes the cross-linguistically rare retroflex place of articulation and four-way laryngeal contrasts, is known to pose difficulties for native English speakers. Hindi language textbooks address this challenge, in part, by providing various articulatory and acoustic descriptions of Hindi consonants, typically…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Indo European Languages, Phonemes
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Yeung, Susanna Siu-sze; Qiao, Shen; Pan, Dora Jue; Lin, Dan – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
The longitudinal study investigated the directionality and transfer mechanism of cross-linguistic transfer of phonological awareness between L1 and L2 in predicting early writing (word dictation) in Chinese children learning English as L2. Ninety primary school Grade 1 (P1) students were assessed on phonological awareness in Cantonese (syllable…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Phonological Awareness, Writing Skills, Sino Tibetan Languages
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Li, Linghong; Valcke, Martin; Dessein, Bart; Badan, Linda; Anderl, Christoph – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
The increasing attention on Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) pronunciation instruction gives us an opportunity to look into the current directions of teaching CFL and the specific instructional pronunciation strategies employed by CFL teachers. This paper offers a review of empirical evidence on the use and impact of instructional pronunciation…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Pronunciation Instruction, Suprasegmentals