Lingnan University
University of Connecticut - Storrs
St. Cloud State University
Georgia State University
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Cedarville University
University of Antique, Sibalom
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Portland State University
Segmental Error Gravity In L2 Arabic Speech Comprehensibility And Accentedness: L1 Consonant Age Of Acquisition As A Predictor,
2024
American University in Cairo
Segmental Error Gravity In L2 Arabic Speech Comprehensibility And Accentedness: L1 Consonant Age Of Acquisition As A Predictor, Mark Papai
Theses and Dissertations
Second language (L2) pronunciation studies have found that the intelligibility (i.e., listeners’ actual understanding) of L2 speech is most closely related to its comprehensibility (i.e., listeners' ease of understanding) rather than to its overall nativelike pronunciation. The segmental errors that are most detrimental to communication are predicted by phoneme Functional Load (FL): mispronouncing high FL segments affects speech comprehensibility more negatively than mispronouncing low FL ones. However, no data are available on the FL hierarchy of Arabic segments. On the other hand, FL correlates highly with consonant age of acquisition (CAoA) in languages that rely heavily on consonants to contrast …
Drawing About Writing: Exploring Egyptian Middle School Students’ Writing Motivation And Perceptions,
2023
American University in Cairo
Drawing About Writing: Exploring Egyptian Middle School Students’ Writing Motivation And Perceptions, Maryam Elbayady
Theses and Dissertations
The principal aim of this study is to explore Egyptian middle school students’ perceptions of their writing experiences using artistic expression, specifically drawings. It also aims to understand their levels of writing motivation using the Self-Beliefs, Writing-Beliefs, and Attitude Survey (SWAS) (Wright et al., 2019). Finally, it examines the relationships among participants’ perceptions, motivation, and their narrative writing performance. The view that students’ voices are valuable to research geared towards school improvement has largely propelled this study (Bland, 2018; Zumbrunn et al., 2017). In addition, due to the limited literature about middle school students enrolled at private Egyptian schools, this …
The Effects Of Audiovisual Input On Second Language Learning: A Meta-Analysis,
2023
Western University
The Effects Of Audiovisual Input On Second Language Learning: A Meta-Analysis, Dru M. Sutton
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This meta-analysis investigates the contributions of viewing audiovisual input on second language (L2) learning. We calculated 75 effect sizes from 56 experiments (n = 1954). We assessed the effects of audiovisual input on language learning using a within-group (pre-post) meta-analytic approach. The extent to which fifteen moderator variables influenced results was assessed. Several methodologically and pedagogically relevant results were found. Results showed that a) there was a medium effect of audiovisual input on L2 learning (g = 1.01); b) no differences were found between the effects of viewing audiovisual input on different areas of L2 learning (vocabulary, grammar, …
Uncovering University Teachers' Perspectives: Conceptualizations, Factors, And Perceptions Of Second Language Learner Engagement,
2023
King Khalid University
Uncovering University Teachers' Perspectives: Conceptualizations, Factors, And Perceptions Of Second Language Learner Engagement, Eman I. M. Alzaanin
The Qualitative Report
Second language (L2) learner engagement has been a key theme in applied linguistics over the past two decades; however, teachers' voices have been largely absent from L2 learner engagement research. In addition, little is known about what learner engagement means to L2 language teachers. Through semi-structured, in-depth interviews, this study aims to capture the conceptualizations of learner engagement and the perceptions of the factors facilitating or hindering learner engagement in L2 learning in a Saudi university context, as expressed by 12 English as a Foreign Language university (EFL) teachers. The data analysis method used was inductive thematic analysis. The findings …
L2 Learners’ Pragmatic Output In A Face-To-Face Vs. A Computer-Guided Role-Play Task: Implications For Tblt,
2023
Educational Testing Service
L2 Learners’ Pragmatic Output In A Face-To-Face Vs. A Computer-Guided Role-Play Task: Implications For Tblt, Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Judit Dombi, Tetyana Sydorenko, Shoko Sasayama
Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations
Accomplishing oral interactive workplace tasks requires various language abilities, including pragmatics. While technology-mediated tasks are thought to offer many possibilities for teaching and assessing second language (L2) pragmatics, their effectiveness – especially those facilitated by an AI agent (artificial intelligence agent) – remains to be explored. This study investigated how 47 tertiary-level learners of English as a second language (ESL) performed on an oral interactive task that required them to make requests to their boss in two distinct modalities. Each participant completed the same task with a fully automated AI agent and with a human interlocutor in a face-to-face format. …
Lived Experiences Of Unequal Englishes Of Filipino Domestic Workers In Hong Kong,
2023
Southern Luzon State University
Lived Experiences Of Unequal Englishes Of Filipino Domestic Workers In Hong Kong, Nicanor L. Guinto
International Journal for Research in Education
In this paper, I investigate the lived experiences with English of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong from roughly 30 hours of recorded ethnographic interviews and fieldwork with 28 key participants talking about language in relation to their living and working experiences. Employing linguistic ethnographic approaches to analysis, I describe recurring accounts reflecting the tension between doing being an English-proficient and an English-deficient other: a tension that emanates from enabling and constraining sociolinguistic conditions in the workplace and the host society, and informed by participants’ experiences and education from their home country. I demonstrate how participants seem to discursively invoke …
Nii Neemun...,
2023
Montclair State University
Nii Neemun..., Johanna Tumux, Hannah Nosch
Games
Nii Neemun... (I Spy...) is designed for use inside a classroom, where learners can practice hearing and naming the objects that surround them. This game includes a full set of instructions, a learner worksheet, and an answer key, as well as recommendations for adjusting play for beginning and more experienced participants.
The Sociolinguistics Of Code-Switching In Hong Kong’S Digital Landscape: A Mixed-Methods Exploration Of Cantonese-English Alternation Patterns On Whatsapp,
2023
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Sociolinguistics Of Code-Switching In Hong Kong’S Digital Landscape: A Mixed-Methods Exploration Of Cantonese-English Alternation Patterns On Whatsapp, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Yuen Man Tsang
Journal of English and Applied Linguistics
This paper examines the prevalence of Cantonese-English code-mixing in Hong Kong through an under-researched digital medium. Prior research on this code-alternation practice has often been limited to exploring either the social or linguistic constraints of code-switching in spoken or written communication. Our study takes a holistic approach to analyzing code-switching in a hybrid medium that exhibits features of both spoken and written discourse. We specifically analyze the code-switching patterns of 24 undergraduates from a Hong Kong university on WhatsApp and examine how both social and linguistic factors potentially constrain these patterns. Utilizing a self-compiled sociolinguistic corpus as well as survey …
Applying Linguistics To The Adult Esol Classroom: A Guide For Esol Teachers In Community Centers,
2023
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Applying Linguistics To The Adult Esol Classroom: A Guide For Esol Teachers In Community Centers, Lenore Costello
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Many community centers in urban areas of the United States offer English as a Second or Other Language (ESOL) classes to adults. This thesis is intended as a resource for teachers of those classes, so that they may make pedagogical decisions that are informed by Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research findings on how languages are learned. The thesis is designed for teachers with and without formal background in ESOL or linguistics. Each chapter introduces an SLA concept that pertains to instructed SLA: (1) the natural order hypothesis, (2) mental representation and interlanguage, (3) the role of input in acquisition, (4) …
The Distribution Of Tone In Shanghainese Monosyllables: An Optimality Theory Approach,
2023
Washington University in St. Louis
The Distribution Of Tone In Shanghainese Monosyllables: An Optimality Theory Approach, Jamie Xu
Senior Honors Papers / Undergraduate Theses
This paper aims to create an Optimality Theory ranking of tonal phonology constraints in Shanghai Chinese (Shanghainese) monosyllables. Previous research on tonal phonology in Shanghainese preceded the more recent research on Optimality Theory which may provide new principles to justify the language’s tonal phonology system. I use inputs composed of High (H) and Low (L) tone combinations and 8 constraints, (3 faithfulness and 5 markedness constraints) to motivate the distribution of tones in Shanghainese monosyllable in four environments: KV, GV, KVʔ, GVʔ. The faithfulness constraints include DEP, MAX, and IDENT. The markedness constraints include *KL, *GH, POLARITY, [AGREE]ʔ, and *L/ʔ. …
Multilingual Schoolscapes Of Elementary Schools In East Tennessee,
2023
East Tennessee State University
Multilingual Schoolscapes Of Elementary Schools In East Tennessee, Olivia Campbell
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This study investigates how three elementary schools in East Tennessee align their schoolscapes with their multilingual populations. The study involved taking pictures of signage in these elementary schools and analyzing them for multilingualism. The findings indicate that there is limited presence of multilingual signage in the schools despite the presence of diverse students. While the schools are making efforts to be inclusive with their signage, there is clearly more room for improvement.
Acoustic Phonetic Verification Of Canadian Raising Of /Ai/ And /Au/ In Minnesota English,
2023
St. Cloud State University
Acoustic Phonetic Verification Of Canadian Raising Of /Ai/ And /Au/ In Minnesota English, Ettien Koffi
Linguistic Portfolios
The diphthongs [ɑɪ] and [aʊ] are produced respectively as [ʌɪ] and [ʌʊ] by Canadians. This pronunciation was first mentioned in a primer in Canada in 1890. Joos drew scholarly attention to it in a seminal paper in 1942. It was later dubbed “Canadian Raising” by Chambers (1973). Vance (1987) contends that /aɪ/-raising was heard in Fergus Falls, MN, as far back as 1930s, but said nothing about the occurrence of /aʊ/-raising. The goal of this paper is to discuss the status of Canadian Raising in Minnesota English. Two separate experiments were conducted in which 18 …
Social Network Analysis And The Input Hypothesis: An American English Speaker’S Efforts At Learning Korean As L2,
2023
St. Cloud State University
Social Network Analysis And The Input Hypothesis: An American English Speaker’S Efforts At Learning Korean As L2, Victoria Lee, Ettien Koffi
Linguistic Portfolios
The influence that social networks have on the acquisition of a second language (L2) has not been investigated as extensively as the influence that classroom instruction has. Yet, throughout the world, people acquire L2s without ever setting foot in a classroom. In this paper, we investigate the social network of Author 1 in her attempt to acquire Korean while teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in South Korea. The analysis revolves around four people in her social network. The interactions that she had with these individuals allow us to investigate any putative correlation that may exist between social network …
An Idiolectal Acoustic Phonetic Analysis Of English Nasal Consonants,
2023
St. Cloud State University
An Idiolectal Acoustic Phonetic Analysis Of English Nasal Consonants, Ettien Koffi, Emily Schwintek
Linguistic Portfolios
This study focuses on the acoustic phonetic properties of the nasal segments [m], [n], and [ŋ] found in the words ng, things, maybe, need, not, mom, mat, things, Jenny, meet> produced by Author 2. Seven correlates: pitch/F0, F1, F2, F3, F4, intensity, and duration are extracted from these segments to gauge which ones are robust for intelligibility. The main findings are that F0 and duration are very robust correlates, but F1, F2, F3, F4, and intensity are not consistently reliable for assessing intelligibility. The analyses …
The Acoustic Phonetic Properties Of Singly And Doubly Articulated Stops In Anyi: A Data-Driven Analysis,
2023
St. Cloud State University
The Acoustic Phonetic Properties Of Singly And Doubly Articulated Stops In Anyi: A Data-Driven Analysis, Ettien Koffi
Linguistic Portfolios
This paper examines the acoustic phonetic properties of the stop consonants [p, b, t, d, k, g, k͡p, g͡b] in Anyi, an Akan language spoken in eastern Côte d’Ivoire and western Ghana. Twelve acoustic correlates (F0, F1, F2, F3, F4, VOT, intensity, duration, B1, B2, B3, and B4) are extracted from data elicited from 10 participants in order to determine which correlates are robust for speech intelligibility. The findings discussed in the paper are based on 2,880 tokens (10 speakers x 8 words x 3 repetitions x 12 correlates). The investigation serves two purposes. The first is to give an …
Be-Copula And Preposition Omission In Somali L2 English Compositions,
2023
St. Cloud State University
Be-Copula And Preposition Omission In Somali L2 English Compositions, Othniel Williams
Linguistic Portfolios
As a prospective Minnesota-licensed English as a second language (ESL) teacher, I believe that it is very important that the writing patterns of Somali students are studied because they are a major portion of the population of ESL learners in the state. This study examined three essays that were written by Somali students as part of their writing placement test for college. A plethora of issues were found, but the focus is on orthographic matters, the missing lexical auxiliary and the preposition . The orthographic matters include problems with spelling and capitalization, which are common in all three essays. The …
An Esl Writer’S Difficulties With The Modal Verb ,
2023
St. Cloud State University
An Esl Writer’S Difficulties With The Modal Verb , Ettien Koffi, Kaitlin Comfort
Linguistic Portfolios
Modal verbs present ESL writers with a paradox. They are both easy and difficult to use. In this paper, we investigate how a college-bound L2 writer succeeds and fails in using the modal verb in an essay. Though the analysis is based only on one writer’s mistakes, those who have studied ESL writers’ usage of modal verbs concur that the mistakes made by this student are representative of the struggles that other L2 writers face when using . The writer also has issues with deleting the grapheme when it occurs in the coda of consonant clusters. We examine this orthographic …
Acoustic Phonetic Characteristics Of Disordered Vowels,
2023
St. Cloud State University
Acoustic Phonetic Characteristics Of Disordered Vowels, Ettien Koffi, Paige Gerlach
Linguistic Portfolios
In most acoustic phonetic studies, researchers go to great lengths to specify that the participants do not have any speech impediments. These specifications are meant to show that the speech patterns of the talkers qualify as mainstream pronunciation. This is not the case in this study. Author 2 has a noticeable speech impediment. She enrolled in Author 1’s acoustic phonetic course. In this course, students study their own speech patterns in the minutest of details and compare their speech with that of a group of native or nonnative speakers. We do the same with Author 2’s vowels to see how …
Voice Biometrics Fusion For Enhanced Security And Speaker Recognition: A Comprehensive Review,
2023
St. Cloud State University
Voice Biometrics Fusion For Enhanced Security And Speaker Recognition: A Comprehensive Review, Ettien Koffi
Linguistic Portfolios
The scope of this paper is purposefully limited to the 15 voice biometrics modalities discussed by Jain et al. (2004). The place of Voice within their classification scheme is reexamined in light of important developments that have taken place since 2010. Additionally, elements are added to Mayhew’s (2018) overview of the history of biometrics as an attempt to fill in missing gaps concerning Voice. All this leads to a reassessment of voice biometrics and how it relates to other biometric modalities. Speech segments that carry extremely high identity vector loads are discussed. The main assertion of this paper is that …
Dialect Variation And Lexical Stress: An Idiolectal Inquiry,
2023
St. Cloud State University
Dialect Variation And Lexical Stress: An Idiolectal Inquiry, Ettien Koffi, Megan C. Dell' Acqua
Linguistic Portfolios
Ever since Fry (1958) ranked the acoustic correlates of lexical stress as F0 > Duration > Intensity, a controversy has ensued. Some replication studies have agreed with Fry’s ranking, but others have not. It is quite possible that the divergent rankings of correlates may have something to do with dialect variation among the participants in various studies. The evidence for this claim comes from an in-depth study of Author 2’s pronunciation of 14 disyllabic words produced in running speech. Her ranking of the acoustic correlates of lexical stress as F0 > Duration > Intensity agrees with Fry but stands in contrast with the ranking …
