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Nguy?n, Anh-Thu T – Second Language Research, 2020
This article reports a study that aimed to find out whether F0 patterns of L2 English produced by Vietnamese speakers are different to those of native English speakers, whether the non-native F0 patterns are transferred from Vietnamese, and to what extent English and Vietnamese F0 profiles differ. Ten native/L1 Australian English speakers, 20…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Vietnamese, Comparative Analysis, Native Language
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Thordardottir, Elin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
In response to the recent sharp increase of L2 students in Reykjavik schools, allocation criteria for special L2 services were adopted that were based on length of residence and on whether children's home language was tonal or not tonal. This study set out to evaluate the appropriateness of these criteria, and to replicate previous findings of a…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Native Language, Linguistic Input, Repetition
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Wang, Hongfei; Chiaráin, Neasa Ní – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The teaching of spoken Chinese in the context of post-primary education in Ireland faces several complexities. Learners of Mandarin Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL), including both Irish and heritage learners, have demonstrated difficulty in learning spoken Chinese. This exploratory research is part of a larger project which aims to develop…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Secondary School Students
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Josiah, Ubong Ekerete; Udoudom, Juliet Charles – Journal of Education and Learning, 2012
Linguists generally acknowledge that there exists an inevitable inter-relationship between different levels of linguistic analysis--phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Various linguistic labels are used to describe such a link. In particular, there exists a bridge between the phonology and morphology of particular languages.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Morphophonemics, English
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Skidmore, David; Murakami, Kyoko – International Journal of Educational Research, 2010
Prosody refers to features of speech such as intonation, volume and pace. In this paper, we examine teacher-student dialogue in an English lesson at a secondary school in England, using Conversation Analysis notation to mark features of prosody. We also make connections with Goffman's theoretical concept of footing. We show that, within an episode…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Intonation, Poetry
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis