Sehgal, Sapna (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
This doctoral dissertation examines the effects of a short stay abroad (SA) experience on second language (L2) oral fluency development, taking into consideration individual differences in cognition and ...
Aliaga-Garcia, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-12-14)
Adult second language learners often experience major difficulties in perceiving and producing non-native speech sounds. Several perception training studies (Iverson & Evans, 2007; Nishi, & Kewley-Port, ...
Wisniewska, Natalia (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)
This doctoral dissertation examines the benefits of extended exposure to multimodal input through captioned videos for second language pronunciation development. It investigates the effects of TV viewing ...
Safronova, Elena (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)
Many second language (L2) learners find L2 pronunciation difficult and experience perception and production problems leading to accented speech. There exists a great inter-learner variation in L2 ...
Mora Plaza, Ingrid (Date of defense: 2023-06-06)
[eng] Second language (L2) pronunciation learning in foreign language instructional contexts is particularly challenging due to insufficient quantity and quality of L2 input. Decades of L2 speech ...
Galimberti, Valeria (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
[eng] In the schools of many countries, English is taught as a foreign language with the goal of preparing students for the demands of higher education and for a globalized workforce where English is ...