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Further Changes In L2 Thinking For Speaking?, Gale Stam
Further Changes In L2 Thinking For Speaking?, Gale Stam
Gale Stam, Ph.D.
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The Acquisition Of A Stage Dialect, Nathaniel George Halloran
The Acquisition Of A Stage Dialect, Nathaniel George Halloran
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This study reports on the effectiveness of (theatrical) stage dialect learning techniques in bringing about linguistically authentic change. Actors use several techniques, some rather esoteric in nature and others more closely tied to linguistic fact such as the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet. The purpose of this study is to examine some of these techniques as to their ability to bring about linguistic authenticity, as well as to attempt a comparison of stage dialect acquisition and naturalistic dialect acquisition.
Data were collected by interviewing a convenience sample of twelve student actors. Six of these (three males, three females) were …