Thanks or Tanks: Training with Tactile Cues Improves Learners' Accuracy of English Interdental Consonants in an Oral Reading Task

Autor/inn/en	Ozakin, Alev Senem; Xi, Xiaotong; Li, Peng; Prieto, Pilar
Titel	Thanks or Tanks: Training with Tactile Cues Improves Learners' Accuracy of English Interdental Consonants in an Oral Reading Task
Quelle	In: Language Learning and Development, 19 (2023) 4, S.404-419 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ozakin, Alev Senem) ORCID (Xi, Xiaotong) ORCID (Li, Peng) ORCID (Prieto, Pilar)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1547-5441
DOI	10.1080/15475441.2022.2107522
Schlagwörter	Oral Reading; Tactual Perception; Pronunciation Instruction; Task Analysis; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Human Body; Teaching Methods; Imitation; Educational Benefits; Speech Communication; Multisensory Learning; Comparative Analysis; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Accuracy; Cues; Articulation (Speech); Audio Equipment; Graduate Students; Undergraduate Students; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Oral work; Reading; Mündliche Übung; Leseprozess; Lesen; Taktile Wahrnehmung; Ausspracheübung; Aufgabenanalyse; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Menschlicher Körper; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungsertrag; Sensorische Stimulation; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Stichwort; Audio-CD; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Türkei
Abstract	The present study investigates whether training second language pronunciation with tactile cues facilitates the production of non-native sounds involving accessible articulatory features. In a between-subjects experiment with a pretest-training-posttest design, 50 Turkish learners of English received audiovisual training on a set of target words and sentences containing two English interdental fricatives, /[voiceless dental non-sibilant fricative]/ and /[voiced dental fricative]/, in one of two conditions, tactile and non-tactile. The tactile condition involved self-touching the tongue as it protruded during pronunciation of the two target sounds. Participants' pronunciation performance was assessed through a word-imitation task, a sentence-imitation task, and a discourse reading task. Results showed that while both training conditions helped learners to improve their pronunciation performance in all three tasks, the tactile condition triggered greater improvements in the discourse reading task. These results extend previous findings on the benefits of tactile input for speech perception and suggest the efficacy of multisensory training paradigms for improving second language pronunciation. (As Provided).
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