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Burri, Michael – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
In view of the minimal attention pronunciation teacher preparation has received in second language (L2) teacher education, this study examined the cognition (i.e. beliefs, thoughts, attitudes and knowledge) development of 15 student teachers during a postgraduate subject on pronunciation pedagogy offered at an Australian tertiary institution.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Second Language Instruction, Cognitive Processes
Vicenik, Chad Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2011
It has been widely shown that infants and adults are capable of using only prosodic information to discriminate between languages. However, it remains unclear which aspects of prosody, either rhythm or intonation, listeners attend to for language discrimination. Previous researchers have suggested that rhythm, the duration and timing of speech…
Descriptors: Intonation, Auditory Discrimination, North American English, Acoustics
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Yavas, Mehmet; McLeod, Sharynne – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Two member onset consonant clusters with /s/ as the first member (#sC onsets) behave differently from other double onset consonant clusters in English. Phonological explanations of children's consonant cluster production have been posited to predict children's speech acquisition. The aim of this study was to consider the role of the Sonority…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Processing, Speech Communication, Phonemes
Kuiper, Koenraad; Allan, W. Scott – Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
An Introduction to English Language is designed as a coursebook for students and teachers of English and introductory linguistics, which presupposes no prior knowledge of the sounds, words, sentences and meanings of English. Believing that the best way to learn is through listening and doing, the authors have filled this book with worked examples…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Syntax, Phonetics, Suprasegmentals
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Tunmer, William E.; Nesdale, Andrew R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1985
This study investigated the relationship of phonological awareness to learning to read. Australian first-grade children were tested for verbal intelligence, phonemic segmentation ability, and reading achievement. Path analysis revealed phonological awareness affected reading comprehension indirectly through phonological recoding. The development…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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