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Effects of Narrow Listening on ESL Learners' Pronunciation and Fluency: An 'MP3 Flood' Programme Turning Mundane Homework into an Engaging Hobby

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Tsang, Art – Language Teaching Research, 2022

While most empirical studies have investigated the improvement of learners' L2 spoken proficiency via speaking-related interventions, the present study examined the same topic through a different modality: listening. Ninety-five first-year tertiary-level students of English as a second language (ESL) in Hong Kong participated in this three-month…

Descriptors: Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)

Prosody-Syntax Integration in a Second Language: Contrasting Event-Related Potentials from German and Chinese Learners of English Using Linear Mixed Effect Models

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Nickels, Stefanie; Steinhauer, Karsten – Second Language Research, 2018

The role of prosodic information in sentence processing is not usually addressed in second language (L2) instruction, and neurocognitive studies on prosody-syntax interactions are rare. Here we compare event-related potentials (ERP) of Chinese and German learners of English L2 to those of native English speakers and show how first language (L1)…

Descriptors: Intonation, Syntax, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction