[PDF] Top 20 The perception of the english -s morpheme by brazilian EFL learners

... meanwhile the native listeners considered the slight differences of duration as acceptable variations due to their language ...Therefore, the informants’ allegations that the “slower” ... See full document

... and the researcher took the learners to the Language Laboratory at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), where they performed activities in which they listened to specific stimuli ... See full document

... to the rest of the conversation and try to answer a final ...turn, the woman who was complimented in the first half of the dialog, returns the compliment to ... See full document

... ‘rug’ the first time s/he heard ...among the Extra listeners, since some of them transcribed the word in question as ‘rug’, and as a word different from its target and non-target ... See full document

... on the country where English is taught, it is important to discern how much of EFL pronunciation difficulty is related to native language (NL) interference and how much to other factors, such ... See full document

... influenced by repetition (1, 3, or 5 number of occur- rences), type of target item (single words ...time of posttest administration (immediately or 1 week after the learning session) ... See full document

... 65), the onset in English may optionally contain up to three consonants and the coda may be formed by one to four consonants, which can be represented as (C) (C) (C) (V) (C) (C) (C) ...variety ... See full document

... first the concept of motivation based on traditional psychological and cognitive views, and then move forwards to consider the notion of investment and identity in FL ...research. The ... See full document

... lives. The willingness to learn another language has been a powerful instrument, which has impelled many people to pursue some goals related to learning a language, be willing to live abroad - to experience and ... See full document

... all learners had received some type of formal instruction on the interdentals, the final question motivated them to explain or comment on some characteristics of these sounds, using ... See full document

... an English teacher for children, I have indeed noticed the learners’ great interest and willingness to communicate orally in the ...general the difficulties young learners ... See full document

... Traditionally, the subarea of Applied Linguistics that deals with the unfolding of an L2 has been named ‘Second Language Acquisition’ or SLA as can be testified in the quotation from ... See full document

... first the codas that induce less epenthesis, supposedly the least difficult ...to the results of the present study, words in which the -ed is preceded by vocalic contexts ... See full document

... accurately the conditions which are necessary for transfer to facilitate or obstruct the acquisition and use of a second ...From the learner’s point of view, crosslinguistic ... See full document

... in English but not in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), it can be hypothesized that there are different statuses given to aspiration as an acoustic cue in the two language ...investigating perception ... See full document

... view of spoken language as more involved and more interactive than written language, as in Chafe, has been challenged by a number of studies (Tannen 1982b, Rubin 1980, Besnier ...about English ... See full document

... affect the judgement about the rhythmic distinction between syllable-timed and stress-timed ...combination of both kinds in the same ...rhythm of Portuguese spoken in São Paulo as ... See full document

... stated by Flege (1995), “foreign accents in English are common in the speech of non-native ...from English phonetic norms along a wide range of segmental and suprasegmental ... See full document

... explain the interlanguage production of English syllable-final consonants by Brazilian EFL learners in this ...For the analysis of these data, as a result, ... See full document

... and, of course, knowing something in theory is very different from knowing it in ...me, the parking lot was empty and I was alone. The thing is that I didn’t have much to be robbed, only thirteen ... See full document