Communicative focus on second language phonetic form: Teaching Japanese learners to perceive and produce English /π/ without explicit instruction

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 377-409

  Saito, Kazuya ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84923349446     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716413000271     Document Type: Article

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