Longitudinal L2 Development in the Prosodic Marking of Pragmatic Meaning: Prosodic Changes in L2 Speech Acts and Individual Factors

Autor/inn/en	Taguchi, Naoko; Hirschi, Kevin; Kang, Okim
Titel	Longitudinal L2 Development in the Prosodic Marking of Pragmatic Meaning: Prosodic Changes in L2 Speech Acts and Individual Factors
Quelle	In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 44 (2022) 3, S.843-858 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Taguchi, Naoko) ORCID (Kang, Okim)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-2631
DOI	10.1017/S0272263121000486
Schlagwörter	Intonation; Speech Acts; Suprasegmentals; Phonology; Foreign Countries; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Language Proficiency; Context Effect; Task Analysis; Language of Instruction; Institutional Characteristics; Universities; Speech Communication; Discourse Analysis; Change; Learning Processes; Pragmatics; Longitudinal Studies; Individual Differences; Undergraduate Students; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprechakt; Fonologie; Ausland; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Aufgabenanalyse; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; University; Universität; Diskursanalyse; Wandel; Learning process; Lernprozess; Pragmalinguistik; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Individueller Unterschied
Abstract	This study investigated whether L2 English learners' prosodic properties in speech acts change as they are immersed in the English-speaking academic community over time, and if so, what individual and contextual factors (proficiency, orientation to language study, and target language contact) potentially affect these changes. Forty-seven Japanese learners of English in an English-medium university in Japan completed a speaking task that elicited two speech acts (request and opinion) three times over one academic year (8 months). Their speech was analyzed for discourse intonational features (e.g., tone choices, prominence ratio, and pitch range). Results showed that all prosodic properties changed over time, although the pace and patterns of changes differed among the properties. Proficiency and language contact significantly affected the change in tone choice, but no other relationship was found between individual/contextual factors and changes in prominence ratio or pitch range. (As Provided).
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