Wu Xiaojun (Writer) (Last Name) (First) (Initial) Challenges of Accommodating Non-native English Speaking Instructors’ Teaching and (Title) Native English Speaking Students’ Learning in College, and the Exploration of the Potential Solutions Education Asst. Prof. Jill Stanton May, 2003 82 (Graduate Major) (Research Adviser) (Month/Year) (No.of pages) American Psychological Association (APA) Pub...

Musical experience has been demonstrated to play a significant role in the perception of non-native speech contrasts. The present study examined whether or not musical experience facilitated the normalization of speaking rate in the perception of non-native vowel length contrasts. Musicians and non-musicians were first briefly familiarized with Thai vowel length distinctions before completing i...

This paper presents a phonological feature based computer aided pronunciation training system for the learners of a new language (L2). Phonological features allow analysing the learners’ mispronunciations systematically and rendering the feedback more effectively. The proposed acoustic model consists of a multi-task deep neural network, which uses a shared representation for estimating the phon...

the present study was carried out tofind if the personality traits of introversion and extroversion have anyeffects on the speaking ability of iranian students of japanese in terms of accuracy, fluency and lexicaldensity. to this end, 60iranian students of japanese were given the eysenckpersonality inventory; they were also given a role play interview test toelicit speaking samples from them. t...

Foreign language enjoyment and speaking anxiety in the classroom are two potential emotion-inducing factors for foreign language learning. This sequential mixed methods study investigated whether and to what extent Iranian EFL students experienced foreign language enjoyment and public speaking anxiety in their English classrooms, and how they characterize the sources of the enjoyment and speaki...

Visual stimuli are frequently used to improve memory, language learning or perception, and understanding of metacognitive processes. However, in virtual reality (VR), there few systematically empirically derived databases. This paper proposes the first collection objects based on empirical evaluation for inter-and transcultural encounters between English- German-speaking learners. We explicit i...

Effects of reverberation and noise on speech comprehension by native and non-native English-speaking listeners" (2013). Architectural Engineering-Faculty Publications. 97. Previous studies have demonstrated the negative impact of adverse signal-to-noise-ratios on non-native English-speaking listeners' performance on speech recognition using recall tasks, as well as implied that comprehension sk...