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Characterizing and dealing with anxiety in the foreign language classroom
(2018-12-03)
Foreign Language Anxiety has been defined as the feeling of nervousness that may appear in the process of acquiring a new language. Although it may have beneficial effects on students’ performance, the presence of anxious ...
Analysis of EFL speech production data according to theoretical models : English plosives by Native Spanish speakers
(2017-11-21)
Within language acquisition, speaking in a non-native language accurately is extensively recognized to be the hardest skill confronted by learners. It seems an arduous task as it demands the correct employment of second ...
American English: speech analysis of the Southern dialect
(2017-11-21)
Language is a complex phenomenon every human ends mastering, independently of the mother tongue they have acquired in their childhood. In this globalised world, however, an increasing number of speakers are multilingual ...
The role of task repetition in L2 acquisition
(2017-11-24)
The use of tasks in language teaching has been demonstrated to be beneficial as it provides learners with the opportunity to develop their interlanguage by means of conversational interaction. However, as tasks are ...
Acoustic analysis of EFL speech production corpora according to the Speech Learning Model
(2020-05-20)
It is widely accepted that L1 influences the acquisition of L2 phonology during Second Language Acquisition. Models such as the Speech Learning Model (SLM) have tried to explain this process by defining bi-directional ...
The use of dictogloss in the learning of a foreign language
(2020-11-24)
The Communicative Teaching Method was a language teaching methodology very popular in the 70’s and 80’s of the previous century. Its main emphasis was on second language (L2) use and, therefore, the teaching of grammar was ...
The acquisition of morphosyntax by children with Down syndrome
(2020-11-24)
Down syndrome is one of the most common genetic disorders associated with intellectual disability and with cognitive delays that have clear implications for language learning, especially for the acquisition of morphosyntax. ...
Production of english vowels by native spanish speakers: an analysis
(2020-12-21)
The objective of achieving a proficient pronunciation in a language other than the individual’s mother tongue is a great challenge that numerous speakers are willing to overcome. However, during language acquisition learners ...
Back-formed compound words
(2020-05-20)
Back-formation and compounding constitute two morphological processes of word-formation that, on the one hand, can coalesce, and on the other hand, can collide. The central aim of this paper is to explain back-formation ...
Explaining the uses of ser and estar: A didactic proposal for English learners of Spanish
(2020-05-20)
The distinction between ser and estar is one of the most difficult aspects of Spanish grammar for English learners of Spanish. There are many authors from different backgrounds that have dealt with this topic aiming to ...