Przeglądaj Research in Language (2017) vol.15 nr 4 według tytułu
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Accents of English at Czech schools: Students’ attitudes and recognition skills
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)The study investigates the attitudes of 254 Czech students towards English as the main language taught at secondary schools. The questionnaire enquired about their perspectives on learning English in general, British and ... -
Developing a Pronunciation Computer Program for the Acquisition of English Phonemes and Word Stress
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)This study devised a pronunciation computer program to examine whether mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) could facilitate college students’ acquisition of English phonemes and word stress. Thirty-eight participants ... -
The effect of incidental learning on the comprehension of English affixes by Arabic-speaking EFL learners: acquisition and application
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)This study aims to examine the effect of incidental learning on the comprehension of 30 English affixes by 50 Arabic-speaking EFL learners in an attempt to determine which affixes are more easily comprehended. We adopt the ... -
English word stress in Polish learners’ speech production and metacompetence
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)This paper focuses on the relations between conscious and subconscious aspects of English word stress acquisition. Using two tasks–reading and written word stress identification, we test metacompetence and production ... -
Foreign language learners acquire L2 phonetic detail: Goose and Foot fronting in non-native English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)Whether late learners discern fine phonetic detail in second-language (L2) input, form new phonetic categories, and realize them accurately remains a relevant question in L2 phonology, especially for foreign-language (FL) ... -
On the brink of-Noun Vs. On the verge of-noun: a distinctive-collexeme analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)This paper uses the terminology of Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1996; 2006) and a corpus-based method to investigate a pair of semantically similar constructions and the lexemes that occur in both of them. The method, ... -
Overshooting Americanisation. Accent stylisation in pop singing – acoustic properties of the bath and trap vowels in focus
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-02-06)The paper addresses the problem of overshoot involved in singing accent stylisation. Selected phonetic features indexed as “American” and “Cockney” are analysed in the singing and speaking styles of a British vocalist, ...