Instruction plus monitor training produced positive transfer of pronunciation knowledge to uninstructed words¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Learners who mastered target sounds in instructed words could pronounce those sounds accurately in uninstructed words, which the authors interpret as positive transfer. → Qian Liu & Zunwei Fu 2011

Evidence¶

Qian Liu & Zunwei Fu 2011¶

Qian Liu & Zunwei Fu. (2011). The Combined Effect of Instruction and Monitor in Improving Pronunciation of Potential English Teachers. English Language Teaching, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v4n3p164

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Authors' interpretation (type e) in the discussion section, inferring transfer from post-test materials; the article presents this as confirmation of the second hypothesis rather than as a separately tested comparison.

"Having learned the pronunciation rules of target sounds, the participants in the experimental group were capable, with the help of monitor strategies, of identifying other words containing these sounds and thus improving their pronunciation accuracy of these words."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• The control group showed no significant improvement in pronunciation accuracy without instruction or monitor training — related
• Combining pronunciation instruction with monitor-strategy training greatly improves pronunciation accuracy in adult English majors — related
• Pronunciation gains from instruction plus monitoring are smaller in spontaneous speech than in vocabulary and sentence reading — related