The relationship between pronunciation and listening discrimination when Japanese natives are learning English.
Two Japanese students were taught to pronounce and discriminate English words that contain unfamiliar phonemic contrasts (e.g., rock and lock). Teaching pronunciation was found to be easier than teaching listening discrimination. Teaching listening discrimination resulted in collateral improvement in pronunciation and, to a lesser extent, vice versa.
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Naruto University of Education, Naruto, Japan.
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