Variability: Friend or foe in second language phonetic learning?
Conferencista
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Charlie Nagle
Charlie Nagle
Charlie Nagle is a quantitative researcher working in the areas of language learning, speech perception and production, and listener-based evaluations of speech. He is especially interested in longitudinal research methodology and multivariate statistical techniques including multilevel modeling and structural equation modeling. He is currently researching crosslinguistic influence in perception and production and how training paradigms and procedures for second language speech learning can be optimized. He is also interested in individual differences in motivation, behavior, and learning, and the complex relationships that emerge among those constructs over time. His work has been published in venues such as Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and The Modern Language Journal, and his research has been supported by the Fulbright Program and the National Science Foundation.
Moderador(a)
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Alison Roberto Gonçalves
Alison Roberto Gonçalves
Professor Adjunto na área de Inglês do Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas (DELEM), da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Doutor pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Inglês – Estudos Linguísticos, na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2017). Possui mestrado em Letras (Inglês e Literatura Correspondente) pelo mesmo programa (2014), e graduação em Letras Português/ Inglês e respectivas Literaturas pela Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (2011). Integra o Núcleo de Pesquisa em Fonética e Fonologia Aplicada à Língua Estrangeira (NUPFFALE). Membro da Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN). Sua agenda de pesquisa aborda a aquisição da linguagem sob viés psicolinguístico, fonética e fonologia, ensino de pronúncia, bilinguismo e a educação bilíngue. Atua, principalmente, nos seguintes eixos: aquisição e processamento da linguagem, bilinguismo e educação bilíngue, fonética e fonologia, linguística aplicada e formação docente.
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Variability: Friend or foe in second language phonetic learning?
Accumulated findings from the past thirty years of pronunciation intervention research have left no doubt that pronunciation instruction works. As a result of decades of studies, practitioners now have at their fingertips a range of empirically-validated techniques known to help learners improve their ability to perceive and produce the sounds and rhythm of their additional language. One variable that has consistently emerged as an important regulator of success is variability. In speech perception training, variability has been implemented though the number of talkers and/or phonetic contexts included in the training set. Indeed, there is a sizable body of work pointing to the benefits of multi-talker phonetic training. Yet, variability, in the form of multiple talkers, contexts, and training targets, may not always be beneficial, or may not be as beneficial as we believe it to be. In this talk, I discuss what we know about the role variability plays in shaping pronunciation instruction outcomes. I focus on speech perception training, which has been the bedrock of variability-driven research, but I also comment on variability and its potential role in helping learners improve their production.