期刊名称：Revista Virtual de Estudos da Linguagem - ReVEL
电子版ISSN：1678-8931
出版年度：2005
卷号：3
期号：5
出版社：Gabriel de Ávila Othero
摘要：When listeners are presented with phones that are not used in their own language, they typically perceive sounds in a way that is not as good as a native speaker of the language from which the phones were selected (García-Perez, 2003; Bradlow and Pisoni, 1997; Munro, Flege, and Mackay, 1996; Rochet, 1995; Munro, 1993; Werker, 1989). From a second language teaching (SLT) point of view, this issue can have both practical and theoretical implications. In practice, the teacher can foresee the difficulties the students may experience distinguishing certain phonetic contrasts in the second language. Theoretically, the teacher could look for the conditions that facilitate the development of the second language student’s ability to differentiate the new phonetic categories. The present study focuses on the theoretical implications of this phenomenon in the context of training Spanish students to identify English pairs of vowels /i/-/I/, /u/-/U/, and /Ã/-/A/.
