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Episode 24: Pronunciation Development

February 20, 2025 • Diane Neubauer, PhD & Reed Riggs, PhD • Season 3 • Episode 24

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Episode 24 - Pronunciation development

Reed’s grad school classmate's study:

https://www.hawaii.edu/sls/phd-student-wenyi-ling-2018-research-award/

The full dissertation:

Ling, W. (2021). The Perception, Processing and Learning of Mandarin Lexical Tone by Second Language Speakers. University of Hawai'i at Manoa. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/4e749171-1747-4236-b40e-5430a912d442/content

Here's Schmidt info, including a mention of shadowing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noticing_hypothesis

Diane recommended a book with several chapters about pronunciation development:

Piske, T., & Young-Scholten, M. (Eds.). (2008). Input matters in SLA (Vol. 35). Multilingual Matters.

https://www.multilingualmatters.com/page/detail/input-matters-in-sla/?SF1=work_id&ST1=CVIEW-489

Diane also mentioned a meta-analysis of pronunciation studies. This is that meta-analysis:

Lee, J., Jang, J., & Plonsky, L. (2015). The effectiveness of second language pronunciation instruction: A meta-analysis. Applied Linguistics, 36(3), 345-366. https://academic.oup.com/applij/article/36/3/345/2422438

It seems to be available without a paywall!

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"Conversations about Language Teaching" is a podcast of unscripted discussions of language teaching, drawing on both research and classroom & online language teaching. If you like thinking deeply about issues of classroom language teaching and how those relate to research and theory, this podcast might be for you.

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