音乐听力与外语语调习得

IF 3.7 1区 文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Pub Date : 2023-03-31 DOI:10.14746/ssllt.23166
Mateusz Jekiel, Kamil Malarski
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本研究旨在确定卓越的音乐听力是否与第二语言(L2)语调模式的成功产生相关。在进行了为期两个学期的英语口音培训课程前后,对50名大学水平的波兰英语使用者进行了记录。参与者被要求大声朗读一系列包含不同语调模式的简短对话,完成两项音乐听力测试,测量音调失聪和旋律辨别,以及一项关于音乐体验的调查。我们将参与者的F0轮廓线与他们的口音培训老师根据ToBI (Tones and Break Indices)指南提供的模型进行比较,并将结果与音乐听力测试分数和调查结果进行比较,从而直观地分析和评估参与者的语调。结果表明,更准确的音高感知可能与更正确地产生第二语言语调模式有关,因为具有优越音乐听力的参与者在训练后产生了更多与母语相似的语音轮廓,类似于他们的老师。在根据参与者的音乐听力测试分数和音乐经验将他们分为四类之后,我们还观察到一些音乐听力测试分数较高的学生能够产生更正确的第二语言语调模式。然而,音乐听力测试成绩差且没有音乐背景的学生也有提高,这表明在正式的课堂环境中习得第二语言语调是可以成功的,而不管一个人的音乐听力技能如何。
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Musical hearing and the acquisition of foreign-language intonation
The present study seeks to determine whether superior musical hearing is correlated with successful production of second language (L2) intonation patterns. Fifty Polish speakers of English at the university level were recorded before and after an extensive two-semester accent training course in English. Participants were asked to read aloud a series of short dialogues containing different intonation patterns, complete two musical hearing tests measuring tone deafness and melody discrimination, and a survey regarding musical experience. We visually analyzed and assessed participants’ intonation by comparing their F0 contours with the model provided by their accent training teachers following ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) guidelines and compared the results with the musical hearing test scores and the survey responses. The results suggest that more accurate pitch perception can be related to more correct production of L2 intonation patterns as participants with superior musical ear produced more native-like speech contours after training, similar to those of their teachers. After dividing participants into four categories based on their musical hearing test scores and musical experience, we also observed that some students with better musical hearing test scores were able to produce more correct L2 intonation patterns. However, students with poor musical hearing test scores and no musical background also improved, suggesting that the acquisition of L2 intonation in a formal classroom setting can be successful regardless of one’s musical hearing skills.
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12 weeks
期刊介绍: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching (ISSN 2083-5205) is a refereed journal published four times a year by the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland. The language of publication is English. The journal is devoted to reporting previously unpublished highest quality theoretical and empirical research on learning and teaching second and foreign languages. It deals with the learning and teaching of any language, not only English, and focuses on a variety of topics ranging from the processes underlying second language acquisition, various aspects of language learning in instructed and non-instructed settings, as well as different facets of the teaching process, including syllabus choice, materials design, classroom practices and evaluation. Each issue carries about 6 papers, 6000-8000 words in length, as well as reply articles and reviews. At least one of the four issues per year is a special focus issue devoted to a particular area of second language learning and teaching, sometimes with a guest editor who is an expert on a specific topic.
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