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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Derwing, Tracey M.; Rossiter, Marian J. – Applied Language Learning, 2003
Identified changes in 48 nonnative speakers' (NNSs) pronunciation over a period of 12 weeks as a result of the type of instruction they received--global, segmental, and no specific pronunciation instruction. Implications for pronunciation instruction are drawn from the results. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Fluency, Pronunciation, Second Language Instruction
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Derwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J.; Wiebe, Grace – Applied Language Learning, 1997
Adult English-as-a-Second-Language students enrolled in a speaking improvement course (which emphasized general speaking habits) read aloud lists of true and false sentences at the beginning and end of the course. Native speakers judged their intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accent. Most participants showed significant improvement in at…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, English (Second Language), Graduate Students