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The English language is often referred to as stress-timed. This means that stress in a spoken sentence occurs at regular intervals and the length it takes to say something depends on the number of stressed syllables rather than the number of syllables itself.
English and German are examples of stress-timed languages, while Spanish and Cantonese are syllable-timed. In the classroom. Learners whose first language is syllable-timed often have problems producing the unstressed sounds in a stress-timed language like English, tending to give them equal stress. See also: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk ...
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Our ears, our brains, go straight to those words. Those are the content words. When all syllables are the same length, then there’s no way for the ear to know which words are the most important. So this is why stress is so important in American English. It’s a stress-timed language.
Abstract . Language learning strategies (LLSs) are believed to be influenced by individual differences as well as environmental and contextual factors. Therefore, the effective use of LLSs is determined by various factors, including both learning and learner variables.
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Jul 21, 2005 · Learning strategies are important in second language learning and teaching for two major reasons. First, by examining the strategies used by second language learners during the language learning process, we gain insights into the metacognitive, cognitive, social, and affective processes involved in language learning.
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English is a stress-timed language, meaning certain words are emphasized while others are reduced or linked together. Practice stressing the correct syllables and using rising and falling intonation patterns.
English is a very rhythmical language, so that a learner who can maintain the rhythm of the language is more likely to sound both natural and fluent. The two components of the system which have the greatest influence on rhythm are sentence stress and the various features of connected speech, i.e. what happens to words when we put them in an ...
