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Can non-interactive language input benefit young second-language learners?
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Au, Terry Kit-Fong Chan, Winnie Wailan Cheng, Liao Siegel, Linda S. Tso, Ricky Van Yip |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | To fully acquire a language, especially its phonology, children need linguistic input from native speakers early on. When interaction with native speakers is not always possible – e.g. for children learning a second language that is not the societal language – audios are commonly used as an affordable substitute. But does such non-interactive input work? Two experiments evaluated the usefulness of audio storybooks in acquiring a more native-like second-language accent. Young children, first- and second-graders in Hong Kong whose native language was Cantonese Chinese, were given take-home listening assignments in a second language, either English or Putonghua Chinese. Accent ratings of the children's story reading revealed measurable benefits of non-interactive input from native speakers. The benefits were far more robust for Putonghua than English. Implications for second-language accent acquisition are discussed. |
| Related Links | http://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/204906/1/Content.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/38058617.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/C33698D1CAF94059A2C3606A321DD14C/S0305000913000627a.pdf/div-class-title-can-non-interactive-language-input-benefit-young-second-language-learners-a-href-fns01-ref-type-fn-a-div.pdf |
| Ending Page | 350 |
| Page Count | 28 |
| Starting Page | 323 |
| ISSN | 03050009 |
| e-ISSN | 14697602 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000913000627 |
| Journal | Journal of Child Language |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 42 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2015-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal of Child Language Language Studies Second Language Input From Native Speakers |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology Linguistics and Language |
