A Controlled Study of Temporal Variables in NS_NNS Lectures  

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Beretta, Alan ; Griffiths, Roger

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: RELC Journal (sebagian Full Text) vol. 22 no. 1 (Jun. 1991), page 1-19.
Fulltext: RELC Journal-1991-Griffiths-1-19.pdf (876.11KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/REL/22 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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There is sufficient evidence from both Ll and L2 research to indicate that temporal variables (including speech rate and pause phenomena) can be manipulated to facilitate listening comprehension. There is, however, no reliable evidence to indicate that rate modification is a widely occurring phenomena in NS-NNS interaction. This controlled study was designed to investigate whether 6 university professors would modify the temporal organization of their speech when delivering identical lectures to NS, low-proficiency and high-proficiency NNS groups. Samples of the recorded lectures were spectrographically analyzed and a large number of temporal variables were investigated. Contrary to expectations derived from a reading of the L2/ESL literature no significant modifications to speech rate were found in deliveries to either the low- or high proficiency groups. Observed changes in articulation rate narrowly missed being significant, but differences were between the two NNS groups, not between the NS and NNS groups. Highly significant differences were, however, observed in the data on filled pauses. Ll pausological literature is drawn upon in suggesting explanations of these findings. Implications for L2 teaching are discussed.

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