The effect of teaching English phonotactics on the lexical segmentation of English as a foreign language  

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Al-jasser, Faisal

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SYSTEM: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 36 no. 1 (Mar. 2008), page 94-106.
Topik: Listening comprehension; Lexical segmentation; Phonotactics; Bottom-up
Fulltext: p. 94-106.pdf (195.69KB)

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This paper reports on an intervention study which investigated the effect of teaching English phonotactics upon Arabic speakers’ lexical segmentation of running speech in English. The study involved a native English-speaking group (N = 12), a non-native control group (N = 20); and a non-native experimental group (N = 20). Each group was pre-tested using a Word Spotting Task which investigated the extent to which illegal consonant clusters in English and Arabic supported the lexical segmentation of English. The non-native groups were post-tested with the same task after 8 weeks, during which the experimental group was given a treatment consisting of explicit teaching of relevant English phonotactic constraints. Post-test results showed significant gains in the segmentation ability of the experimental group.

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