Pavel Trofimovich
Concordia University
141 Papers
259 Citations
Pavel Trofimovich is an academic researcher from Concordia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pronunciation & Fluency. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 113 publications. Previous affiliations of Pavel Trofimovich include Northern Arizona University & Concordia University Wisconsin.
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Papers
Chapter 5. When three equals tree
Pavel Trofimovich,Paul John +1 more
- 24 Mar 2011
TL;DR: This study used auditory priming to examine the phonological content of lexical entries for adult second language speakers and found that participants did not distinguish between these pairs of words in their lexicons, but were able to produce at least some of the words containing English /ð/ and /θ/ accurately.
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Comprehensible to Whom? Examining Rater, Speaker, and Interlocutor Perspectives on Comprehensibility in an Interactive Context
TL;DR: In this article , 20 pairs of L2 English interactants rated themselves and their partner on 7 occasions distributed throughout a 17-minute interaction encompassing three communicative tasks, and recordings of the interaction were subsequently presented to external raters for evaluation.
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Second language learners’ attitudes towards French varieties: The roles of learning experience and social networks
TL;DR: This paper found evidence of reverse linguistic stereotyping with learners preferring to speak like one speaker significantly more than the other, based on the speaker's assumed identity, not actual speech, and four of the 6 speaker ratings were also associated with participants' oral proficiency scores, social network density, and positive experiences in Quebec.
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Effects of international students' first language backgrounds on their speech productions
Talia Isaacs,Dustin Crowther,Pavel Trofimovich,Kazuya Saito +3 more
- 01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: The authors found that a whole host of factors, such as pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, often contribute to the successful transmission of a message, and the speaker's native language background plays a part.
‘Transported into like another space’: second language learners’ perspectives of their experience of flow
TL;DR: This study explores flow in second language learners through their self-reported experiences, revealing seven dimensions, including attention, interest, and automaticity, and linking flow to the proceduralization of language skills in various learning contexts.