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First and Second Language Acquisition

California State University, San Bernardino

2005

English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Taiwan

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Enunciative Identity In Elementary English As A Foreign Language, Hsiao-Juo Huang Jan 2005

Enunciative Identity In Elementary English As A Foreign Language, Hsiao-Juo Huang

Theses Digitization Project

How to improve the skill of speaking English is a major challenge for English learners in Taiwan nowadays. This project focuses on issues of pronunciation as the starting point to examine the problems of learning English, and issues of identity transformation in the language-learning process. Then it addresses the concept of enunciation as a way to facilitate English learners to establish their confidence in, and ownership of, the target language. This project is designed not only for discussing issues of improving the teaching and learning of English pronunciation, but also for explicating how students can gain their own voices and …