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Scholz, Kyle – CALICO Journal, 2017
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games like World of Warcraft are ideally suited to encourage and facilitate second language development (SLD) in the extramural setting, but to what extent do the language learners' actual trajectories of gameplay contribute to SLD? With the current propensity to focus research in digital game-based…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Simulated Environment, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Muller, Mareike – Foreign Language Annals, 2013
This article aims to reconceptualize pronunciation teaching and learning according to the tenets of the 2007 MLA Report and its call for translingual/transcultural competence. The critical discussion of current teaching and research practices shows that the realm of pronunciation has benefitted little from debates on intercultural language…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Multilingualism, Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods
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de Leeuw, Esther; Schmid, Monika S.; Mennen, Ineke – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
The primary aim of this study was to determine whether native speakers of German living in either Canada or the Netherlands are perceived to have a foreign accent in their native German speech. German monolingual listeners (n = 19) assessed global foreign accent of 34 L1 German speakers in Anglophone Canada, 23 L1 German speakers in the Dutch…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Age, Pronunciation, Monolingualism
Wicke, Mariele; Wicke, Rainer E. – 1988
This compilation of interviews and photographs is the result of a German class project entitled Whyte Avenue. The project was carried out by fifth and sixth grade students who were attending an after-school German course in Edmonton, Alberta. The course introduced students to the German language and culture by exposing them to native German…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Awareness, FLES, Foreign Countries