Volume 2
The Importance of Teaching Pronunciation to Adult Learners
If the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) is valid, what can be gained from attempting to teach pronunciation at the college level? According to Vitanova and Miller (2002), students were excited about their improvement in segmentals, supra-segmentals, self-monitoring and self-correction. Improvement is important and attainable even though native speaker like pronunciation may be impossible after a certain age.
On the Effects of Economization and Disambiguation in the Production of EFL Learners
This study explored the effect of “Economization and Disambiguation” paradigms on English language production in order to seek psychological validity for the cognitive accounts of language processing involving Iranian learners of English. The participants consisted of 41 junior students of English Translation at Shiraz Azad University.
