Collaborative Research: A longitudinal approach to examining perception-production links in second language speech sound learning.

协作研究：检查第二语言语音学习中感知-产生联系的纵向方法。

基本信息

批准号：
2117664
负责人：
Charlie Nagle
金额：
$ 24.91万
依托单位：
Iowa State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-09-01 至 2023-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2117664&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research longitudinal approach examining

项目摘要

One of the main challenges of learning another language is learning how to pronounce the constituent sounds. For adult learners, the native language acts like a filter, which may prevent them from perceiving the sounds of the new language correctly. If they don’t perceive those sounds correctly, they may not produce them correctly. These pronunciation problems can affect learners’ ability to understand the new language and their ability to communicate in it. For example, when they listen to the new language, they may struggle to distinguish similar words and when they speak it, they may produce words that listeners don’t understand. Researchers know that perceiving sounds accurately is a prerequisite for producing them accurately, but little is known about how sound perception and sound production develop and influence one another. Understanding how these skills develop and interact is a necessary first step toward developing better models of pronunciation learning and better training procedures that can help students learn new languages more quickly and effectively. In this project, the investigators examine how the relationship between the ability to differentiate and produce sounds in a new language develops over time. This will be accomplished by training participants on sound perception, sound production, or both. Performance in both skills will be measured at multiple time points throughout training to investigate how performance in each area changes over time and how the relationship between them evolves. Participants’ ability to apply the knowledge they learned to new words and to words spoken in a new voice will also be tested, as a means of investigating how different types of training help second language learners deal with variability in speech. The results will lay the foundation for developing a more comprehensive model of second language sound learning. Additionally, findings will provide insight into how pronunciation instruction can be optimized to help learners perceive and produce the sounds and words of other languages accurately, forming the basis for effective second language communication.This project is jointly funded by the Perception, Action, and Cognition Program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

学习另一种语言的主要挑战之一是学习如何发音组成的声音。对于成年学习者，母语的作用就像过滤器，这可能会阻止他们正确感知新语言的声音。如果他们不正确地感知这些声音，则可能无法正确产生它们。这些发音问题可能会影响学习者理解新语言及其在其中交流的能力的能力。例如，当他们听新语言时，他们可能很难区分相似的单词，而当他们说话时，他们可能会产生听众不了解的单词。研究人员知道，准确感知声音是准确生产它们的先决条件，但是对于声音感知和声音产生的发展和彼此影响却一无所知。了解这些技能如何发展和互动是开发出更好的发音学习模型和更好的培训程序的必要第一步，可以帮助学生更快有效地学习新语言。在这个项目中，调查人员研究了随着时间的推移，如何以新语言发展来区分和产生声音的能力之间的关系。这将通过培训参与者进行声音感知，合理的生产或两者兼而有之实现。在整个培训中，将在多个时间点上测量两种技能的性能，以调查每个领域的性能如何随时间变化以及它们之间的关系如何发展。参与者的能力将他们学到的知识应用于新单词和以新声音说话的能力也将进行测试，以此作为调查不同类型的培训如何帮助第二语言学习者处理语音可变性的手段。结果将为开发更全面的第二语言声音学习模型奠定基础。此外，调查结果将提供有关如何优化发音教学的洞察力，以帮助学习者能够准确地感知和产生其他语言的声音和言语，为有效的第二语言交流构成基础。该项目由感知，行动和行动和认知计划共同资助，并通过启发竞争性的研究（EPSCOR）的奖励（EPSCOR）。智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。