Language awareness and second language pronunciation: A classroom study

Language Awareness

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 171-185

  Kennedy, Sara ^a   Trofimovich, Pavel ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Awareness; Pronunciation; Second language learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650279520     PISSN: 09658416     EISSN: 17477506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658416.2010.486439     Document Type: Article

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