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Personal profile
Research Interests
Second Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology, Pronunciation teaching, Portuguese as a Foreign Language, English as a Second Language
Professional Information
My research interests lie within several branches of applied linguistics: second language acquisition, phonetics, phonology, and language teaching methods. I am particularly interested in how phonetics and phonology can inform the teaching of second language pronunciation. One example of the interface between linguistics and language pedagogy involves analyzing the relationship between fluency and measurable phenomena, such as speech rate, pausing, and word boundary features.
Education
PhD (2014), Linguistics, University of Georgia
MA (1991), TESL, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
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The importance of word-final vowel duration for non-native portuguese speaker identification by means of Support Vector Machines
Franks, S. & Barbosa, R., Sep 1 2014, In: Revista Brasileira de Linguistica Aplicada. 14, 3, p. 689-714Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Innovation in ITA course design: Incorporating student-designed field-specific corpora
Eida, M. & Franks, S. C., 2022, Technological resources for second language pronunciation learning and teaching: Research-based approaches. McCrocklin, S. (ed.). Lexington Books, p. 305-326Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Accent Reduction Versus Intelligibility
Spezzini, S., Franks, S. C. & Carter, D., Jan 18 2018, The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. Liontas, J. I. (ed.). WileyResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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Role of Speaking in Academic Language
Franks, S. C., Spezzini, S. & Prado, J., 2018, The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. Liontas, J. I. (ed.). WileyResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary