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A pedagogical note on teaching L2 prosody and speech sounds using hand gestures

Li, Peng; Baills, Florence; Alazard-Guiu, Charlotte; Baqué, Lorraine; Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965- (John Benjamins Publishing, 2023)

This paper reports the pedagogical decisions in Li et al. (2023) “The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy” published in Second Language Research. The study revealed that embodied ...
Hand gestures facilitate the acquisition of novel phonemic contrasts when they appropriately mimic target phonetic features

Xi, Xiaotong; Li, Peng; Baills, Florence; Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965- (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2020)

Purpose: Research has shown that observing hand gestures mimicking pitch movements or rhythmic patterns can improve the learning of second language (L2) suprasegmental features. However, less is known about the effects of ...
Improving second language vowel production with hand gestures encoding visible articulation: evidence from picture‐naming and paragraph‐reading tasks

Xi, Xiaotong; Li, Peng; Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965- (Wiley, 2024)

This study investigates whether audiovisual phonetic training with hand gestures encoding visible or nonvisible articulation features has a differential impact on learning second language sounds. Ninety-nine Catalan–Spanish ...

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