Effects of perception and production trainings on the production of English vowels by French native learners
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2015/06/0010/000247Keywords:
L2 phonology acquisition, vowel production, trainingAbstract
This study examined the effect of two different trainings on the production of English vowels (/iː/, /ɪ/, /æ/, /ʌ/ and /ɑː/) by French learners. Forty-eight French first-year students, who had learned English in school only, were divided into three groups receiving either 5 sessions of perceptual training (PE-Group), or 5 sessions of production training (PR-Group) or no training (C-Group). They were recorded at pre-test and post-test with a reading task of /bVd/ words, and their performance was evaluated by discriminant analysis based on sex-specific models trained on native speakers' productions. The results show improved classification rates for the vowels /ʌ/ and /ɪ/ in the PR-Group and only for /iː/ in the PE-Group. No improvement was observed for the C-Group.
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