This study investigated nine General English books (five produced by non-native Iranian speakers and four produced by native speakers) in terms of learning objectives in Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (2001). The aim was to find out which levels of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy are dominant in the books. So, the contents of the books were codified based on a coding scheme designed by Razmjoo and Kazempurf...

This study investigates whether proficient second language (L2) speakers of Spanish and English use the same parsing strategies as monolinguals when reading temporarily ambiguous sentences containing a complex noun phrase followed by a relative clause, such as Peter fell in love with the daughter of the psychologist who studied in California. Research with monolingual Spanish and English speake...

It has been shown that English speakers (from non-New Zealand backgrounds) use initial stress as a word boundary cue in the segmentation of continuous speech [1]. Research has also shown that Maori English is significantly more syllabletimed than Pakeha English [2]. New Zealanders have exposure to both Maori and Pakeha English. We ask whether they use different segmentation strategies when they...

The present study investigates the effect of language-specific features of L1 on the acquisition of L2. It is intended to show how English initial clusters are produced and perceived by Chinese advanced learners whose language does not allow clusters. Previously we found that Chinese advanced learners would simplify the syllable structure of the English clusters: Cantonese, a southern dialect, ...

This study tested the application of adapted HTK for automatic alignment of speech corpus of Asian speakers’ English. The HTK tool with TIMIT has problems in aligning non-native speakers’ English. New sets of phoneme sequences for each word were listed to test if an adapted alignment module could accurately analyze pronunciation of Japanese speakers’ English. The new sets of phoneme sequences p...