Individual differences in second language speech learning in classroom settings: Roles of awareness in the longitudinal development of Japanese learners' English // pronunciation. Saito, K. Second Language Research, 35(2):149–172, April, 2019. Place: London Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd WOS:000464032900001
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The current study longitudinally examined a crucial individual difference variable - i.e. awareness (operationalized as explicit attention and articulatory knowledge) - in adult second language (L2) speech learning in the context of 40 Japanese learners' English // pronunciation development in an EFL classroom. The participants' speech, elicited from word reading, sentence reading and timed picture description tasks at the beginning and end of one academic semester, were analysed in terms of three acoustic dimensions of English //: third formant (F3), second formant (F2) and duration. Whereas the participants showed gains in the relatively easy aspect of the English // acquisition (F2 reduction for tongue retraction) as a function of increased L2 input, their explicit awareness of accurate English // pronunciation played a significant role in the acquisition of the relatively difficult dimension (lengthening phonemic duration). The awareness-acquisition link was not found, however, for the most difficult dimension (F3 reduction for labial, alveolar and pharyngeal constrictors) at least within the timeframe of the project.
@article{saito_individual_2019,
	title = {Individual differences in second language speech learning in classroom settings: {Roles} of awareness in the longitudinal development of {Japanese} learners' {English} // pronunciation},
	volume = {35},
	issn = {0267-6583},
	shorttitle = {Individual differences in second language speech learning in classroom settings},
	doi = {10.1177/0267658318768342},
	abstract = {The current study longitudinally examined a crucial individual difference variable - i.e. awareness (operationalized as explicit attention and articulatory knowledge) - in adult second language (L2) speech learning in the context of 40 Japanese learners' English // pronunciation development in an EFL classroom. The participants' speech, elicited from word reading, sentence reading and timed picture description tasks at the beginning and end of one academic semester, were analysed in terms of three acoustic dimensions of English //: third formant (F3), second formant (F2) and duration. Whereas the participants showed gains in the relatively easy aspect of the English // acquisition (F2 reduction for tongue retraction) as a function of increased L2 input, their explicit awareness of accurate English // pronunciation played a significant role in the acquisition of the relatively difficult dimension (lengthening phonemic duration). The awareness-acquisition link was not found, however, for the most difficult dimension (F3 reduction for labial, alveolar and pharyngeal constrictors) at least within the timeframe of the project.},
	language = {English},
	number = {2},
	journal = {Second Language Research},
	author = {Saito, Kazuya},
	month = apr,
	year = {2019},
	note = {Place: London
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
WOS:000464032900001},
	keywords = {/(sic)/, accent, acoustic phonetics, acquisition, awareness, fluency, foreign language classroom, foreign-language, individual   differences, instruction, perception, performance, pronunciation, r-vertical-bar, second language speech, starting age},
	pages = {149--172},
}

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