Individuals can use both linguistic and non-linguistic features of the speech signal to identify talkers. For instance, listeners have more difficulty identifying talkers in unfamiliar languages compared to a native language (language familiarity effect), implying that language-specific knowledge aids talker identification. In the present study, the source of the language familiarity benefit on...

This study investigated the categorization of Mandarin lexical tones and music melodic tones by listeners differing in linguistic and musical experience (English musicians, English non-musicians, and Mandarin non-musicians). Linguistic tonal continua were created from the Mandarin rising to level, and falling to level tones. Melodic continua were created by varying the note D under the context ...

Ascertaining the value of a study abroad experience on facilitating language development has long been goal Second Language Acquisition scholars. There is currently plethora studies regarding topic, yet, despite this, evidence remains inconclusive and contradictory. This systematic review evaluates impact among undergraduate learners in both Europe beyond range linguistic outcomes compared to r...

Second language (L2) learners must not only acquire L2 knowledge (i.e. vocabulary and grammar), but they also rapidly access this knowledge. In monolinguals, efficient spoken word recognition is accomplished via lexical competition, by which listeners activate a range of candidates that compete for as the signal unfolds. We examined in adult learners, investigating competition both amongst word...

In today's global economy, most people all over the world need to speak a second language (L2) for study, work, or social purposes. Assessment of speaking, either in classroom as an external exam, is therefore important task. However, because its fleeting nature, assessment speaking proficiency difficult. For valid assessment, test must measure without construct-irrelevant variance, instance, d...

The present study investigates the possible impact of language ideologies on second proficiency. Based interviews and a thematic analysis, we explored among French long-term residents in Stockholm, Sweden. participants had contrasting proficiency levels host community language: five were categorised as low-performers Swedish high-performers Swedish, based two linguistic measures. Overall, low-p...

This paper seeks to examine multilingual children’s Javanese across different grades of primary schools with a focus on proficiency, vocabulary, and grammatical development. The data were partially taken from CBLING (Corpus Bilingual Learners’ Languages), corpus developed by Universitas Negeri Malang. Using AntConc as development tool, we measured proficiency using the Mean Length Utterances (M...

The use of gamification to improve language learning results for primary school kids is investigated in this study. We quantitatively assess the effects on linguistic competence, motivation, engagement, and potential confounding variables using a mixed-methods approach. Language proficiency scores significantly increased between pre- post-testing phases, average by 6.25 points, demonstrating va...

abstract this study scrutinized the interaction between linguistic and strategic variables in reading comprehension test performance of iranian efl learners. to this end, the interaction among the participants’ reading comprehension test performance, use of test-taking strategies, and level of language proficiency was analyzed. the participants comprised 286 students who answered a reading comp...

Abstract Statistical learning (SL) is assumed to lead long-term memory representations. However, the way that those representations influence future remains largely unknown. We studied how children’s existing distributional linguistic knowledge influences their subsequent SL on a serial recall task, in which 49 German-speaking seven- nine-year-old children repeated series of six-syllable sequen...