Une image vaut mille prononciations: Using Twitter to Support the Acquisition of Hard-to-Pronounce Words in L2 French
The present inquiry examines the effectiveness of Twitter in teaching the pronunciation of different types of commonly mispronounced French words to intermediate L2 learners. Twelve L1-American English L2-French learners enrolled in a third-year oral French class participated in an oral naming prete...
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| Язык: | Anglais |
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Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines
2024
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| Online-ссылка: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Итог: | The present inquiry examines the effectiveness of Twitter in teaching the pronunciation of different types of commonly mispronounced French words to intermediate L2 learners. Twelve L1-American English L2-French learners enrolled in a third-year oral French class participated in an oral naming pretest: 24 of the collectively mispronounced items were divided into six categories, based on the nature of the difficulty they presented for learners, and selected to serve as the experimental testset. For 24 days, participants received one tweet containing overt pronunciation instruction targeting a single testword, half of which contained an attached image illustrating the testword, the other half a link to an external video showcasing the testword. A week later, participants completed an oral naming posttest. Results revealed that learners exhibited significantly higher rates of correct pronunciation for words that had been presented with images/gifs than for those that had been presented with links to videos, in all but one category: words with silent non-final consonants. No differences were found for categorical measures of lexical frequency. The implications suggest that while Twitter is generally a useful tool for delivering bite-sized pronunciation instruction in L2 language classes, a tweet’s supporting media may make or break its effectiveness. |
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