Phonetic dissimilarity and their effects on the success of learning a foreign language.

• Main Author: Loke, Natalie Hui Min.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54977
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This project aims to discover whether phonetic dissimilarity between two languages predicts more successful learning of the foreign (L2) language, and whether the Speech Learning Model (SLM) (Flege, 1995) can be extended to the Singaporean context. The study also aims to investigate if the SLM still...