Thanks or tanks: training with tactile cues improves learners’ accuracy of English interdental consonants in an oral reading task

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• dc.contributor.author Ozakin, Alev Senem
• dc.contributor.author Xi, Xiaotong
• dc.contributor.author Li, Peng
• dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-06-20T07:27:09Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.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, /θ/ and /ð/, 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.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU), (AEI) and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) [grant number PGC2018-097007-B-l00], and Catalan government’s Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) [grant number 2017 SGR_971]. The second author is supported for her PhD study by the Secretariat for Universities and Research of the Ministry of Business and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia and the European Social Fund under the Grant for the recruitment of early-stage research staff [grant number 2020FI_B 00237].
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• dc.identifier.citation Ozakin AS, Xi X, Li P, Prieto P. Thanks or tanks: training with tactile cues improves learners’ accuracy of English interdental consonants in an oral reading task. Lang Learn Dev. 2023;19(4):404-19. DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2022.2107522
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2022.2107522
• dc.identifier.issn 1547-5441
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57261
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
• dc.relation.ispartof Language Learning and Development. 2023;19(4):404-19.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PGC2018-097007-B-l00
• dc.rights © This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Language Learning and Development on 18 Aug 2022, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15475441.2022.2107522
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• dc.subject.other Llengua segona -- Adquisició
• dc.title Thanks or tanks: training with tactile cues improves learners’ accuracy of English interdental consonants in an oral reading task
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