The Role of Motivation in Second Language Pronunciation
Description:
This thesis investigates the phonological ability of exceptional second language (L2) learners of English and their levels of motivation. This study is the first of its kind to do a large-scale examination of L2 learners whose first languages (L1s) do not belong to the same Indo-European language family as English. Fifteen non-native speakers (NNSs) of English filled out a questionnaire and produced four speech samples, including a picture description task, paragraph reading task, sentence read…
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Date:
August 2005
Creator:
Wen, Tao-Chih
Partner:
UNT Libraries