Research in Language (2014) vol.12 nr 3
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The Impact of Rhythmic Distortions in Speech on Personality Assessment
Jan Volín, Kristýna Poesová, Radek Skarnitzl
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The Bold and the Beautiful: How Aspects of Personality Affect Foreign Language Pronunciation
Martin Hinton
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Putting Prosody First – Some Practical Solutions to a Perennial Problem: The Innovalangues Project
Dan Frost, Francis Picavet
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Fluctuations in Learners’ Willingness to Communicate During Communicative Task Performance: Conditions and Tendencies
Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak. Mirosław Pawlak
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Desperately Seeking a Communicative Approach: English Pronunciation in a Sample of French and Polish Secondary School Textbooks
Alice Henderson, Anna Jarosz
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The Influence of Attention to Language Form on the Production of Weak Forms by Polish Learners of English
Agata Barańska, Magdalena Zając
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Gemination Strategies in L1 And English Pronunciation of Polish Learners
Andrzej Porzuczek, Arkadiusz Rojczyk
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Fluctuations in Learners’ Willingness to Communicate During Communicative Task Performance: Conditions and Tendencies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)A person’s willingness to communicate (WTC), believed to stem from a combination of proximal and distal variables comprising psychological, linguistic, educational and communicative dimensions of language, appears to be a ... -
Gemination Strategies in L1 And English Pronunciation of Polish Learners
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)Polish is a language where true geminates appear and the occurrence of a double consonant letter in spelling corresponds with double or at least prolonged consonant articulation regardless of the morphological structure ... -
The Influence of Attention to Language Form on the Production of Weak Forms by Polish Learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)The paper discusses a study whose aim was to examine the impact of attention to language form and task type on the realisation of English function words by Polish learners of English. An additional goal was to investigate ... -
The Impact of Rhythmic Distortions in Speech on Personality Assessment
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)The perennial question as to how perceived otherness in speech projects into listener assessment of one’s personality has been systematically investigated within the field of foreign accentedness, vocal communication of ... -
The Bold and the Beautiful: How Aspects of Personality Affect Foreign Language Pronunciation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)In the main study, a group of Polish learners of English completed a number of mimicry tasks in three languages: Italian, Dutch and Chinese, as well as a narration task in English. Mimicry performance and English pronunciation ... -
Desperately Seeking a Communicative Approach: English Pronunciation in a Sample of French and Polish Secondary School Textbooks
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)The first part of this paper analyses pronunciation exercises in a representative sample of textbooks from each country. Pronunciation exercises were classified based on the degree to which they mobilize communicative ... -
Putting Prosody First – Some Practical Solutions to a Perennial Problem: The Innovalangues Project
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-10-15)This paper presents some of the difficulties of teaching languages, in particular English, in the context of LSP/LAP2 programmes in French universities. The main focus of this paper will be the importance of prosody, ...