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Can corrective feedback on second language speech perception errors affect production accuracy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

ANDREW H. LEE  and
ROY LYSTER
ANDREW H. LEE*
Affiliation:
McGill University
ROY LYSTER
Affiliation:
McGill University
*
ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE Andrew H. Lee, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, 3700 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC H3A 1Y2, Canada. E-mail: andrew.lee@mcgill.ca
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Abstract

This study investigated whether different types of corrective feedback (CF) in second language speech perception training have differential effects on second language speech production. One hundred Korean learners of English were assigned to five different groups and participated in eight computer-assisted perception training sessions focusing on English vowels. While no CF was provided to the control group, participants in the four treatment groups received one of three types of auditory CF or a visual type of CF. A pretest, an immediate posttest, and a delayed posttest each consisted of a production measurement at a controlled-speech level. Results revealed that the extent to which the participants’ production accuracy benefited from the perception training depended on CF type. In addition, by adopting the perception accuracy data by Lee and Lyster (2016b), the current study found that improvement in perception accuracy was a significant predictor of improvement in production accuracy.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , March 2017 , pp. 371 - 393
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