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MINI REVIEW article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Language, Culture and Diversity
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1410795
This article is part of the Research Topic Tonal Language Processing and Acquisition in Native and Non-native Speakers View all 3 articles

Multimodal Cues in L2 Lexical Tone Acquisition: Current Research and Future Directions

Provisionally accepted
Bashar M. Farran Bashar M. Farran *Laura M. Morett Laura M. Morett
  • Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Kentucky, United States

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    This review discusses the effectiveness of visual and haptic cues for second language (L2) lexical tone acquisition, with a special focus on observation and production of hand gestures. It explains how these cues can facilitate initial acquisition of L2 lexical tones via multimodal depictions of pitch. In doing so, it provides recommendations for incorporation of multimodal cues into L2 lexical tone pedagogy.

    Keywords: lexical tone, Second Language Acquisition, multimodality, Gesture, Tonal languages

    Received: 01 Apr 2024; Accepted: 08 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Farran and Morett. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Bashar M. Farran, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, 65211, Kentucky, United States

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