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Speaking tasks involving peer-to-peer candidate interaction are increasingly being incorporated into language proficiency assessments, in both large-scale international testing contexts, and in smaller-scale, e.g. course-related, ones. This growth in the popularity and use of paired and group orals has stimulated research, particularly into the types of discourse produced and the possible impact of candidate background factors on performance.[Leer más]

Comenzamos nuestro trabajo con una serie de hipótesis que, si hubieran sido confirmadas, nos harían asumir el desarrollo de un nuevo método de enseñanza enfocado a erradicar las interferencias fónicas encontradas en hablantes de distintas regiones dialectales de las Islas británicas. Estas conjeturas avanzaban que el geolecto particular de cada estudiante tendría una importancia capital a la hora de adquirir los distintos fonemas y alófonos del[Leer más]

A number of formal models of non-native speech perception make predictions regarding ease of discrimination based on the phonetic similarity of non-native phonemes to phonemes from the learner’s native phonology (Best, McRoberts, & Goodell, 2001; J. Flege, 1995; Kuhl, et al., 2008). Recently, individual differences in non-native sound learning have been examined from a dynamical perspective, focusing on initial perceptual abilities of[Leer más]