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    The document discusses a study that examined whether shadowing or simply listening is more effective for Japanese students to improve their ability to understand unfamiliar foreign accents in English. The study involved two groups - a shadowing group that engaged in shadowing conversations between Chinese speakers using English, and a listening group that only listened without any active participation. Both groups received four 15-minute lessons. The results showed that the shadowing group performed significantly better than the listening group on listening skills, suggesting that shadowing may be a more beneficial technique than just passive listening for developing the ability to understand accented English.

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    Mehdi Karimi Shadowing: For Better Understanding Accented Englishes

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    The document discusses a study that examined whether shadowing or simply listening is more effective for Japanese students to improve their ability to understand unfamiliar foreign accents in English. The study involved two groups - a shadowing group that engaged in shadowing conversations between Chinese speakers using English, and a listening group that only listened without any active participation. Both groups received four 15-minute lessons. The results showed that the shadowing group performed significantly better than the listening group on listening skills, suggesting that shadowing may be a more beneficial technique than just passive listening for developing the ability to understand accented English.

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    Mehdi Karimi

    Shadowing: For Better Understanding Accented Englishes

    As a Franca lingua, English has been the language of communication among English speakers for a long
    time. However, many people come up with difficulty when interacting with each other utilizing English
    and the reason is the incomprehensible accents they use. To have a better interaction, speakers should
    speak English with comprehensible pronunciation; however the listeners should understand other
    accents too. The question is whether nonnative speakers should only be exposed to accented English as
    native speakers or another beneficial technique of teaching should be employed . Therefore the
    following study examined which is more effective for Japanese students’ perceptual adaptation—
    listening to an unfamiliar foreign accent , here in the study Chinese accent is used, or shadowing. The
    shadowing group engaged in a shadowing conversation between two Chinese speakers speaking English,
    while the listening group only listened and they did not take the active role of making use of doing any
    activities. Every group was given four lessons of 15 minutes. The results of the study showed that the
    shadowing group performed way better than the listening group regarding listening skills.

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