Browsing The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research & Scholarly Work by Department "Modern Languages and Literacy"
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The Effects of Accent Familiarity and Language Attitudes on Perceived English Proficiency and Accentedness
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016)If accents are a permanent indicator of difference, to what degree do our accents determine how we are perceived by others? The goal of this project was to examine the relationship between raters� accent familiarity, ... -
Lexical-Semantic Transfer and Strategies for Teaching and Learning Putonghua Vocabulary for Cantonese-speaking Learners
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 1, 2016-04-26)Language transfer refers to the language that learners apply to the knowledge of one language to the language that they are learning. According to Bransford (2000), �all new learning involves transfer based on previous ...