CLUNL

The project ProPerL2 – Production and Perception in L2 speech learning, submitted to the Call for IC&DT Projects in all scientific domains – 2022, in the typology Exploratory research projects (PeX), was approved for funding.

Coordinated by Susana Correia, researcher at the LiFE group of CLUNL, the project ProPerL2 aims to explore the impact of auditory perception and production training in L2 speech learning in an understudied language constellation, L1 English and L2 Portuguese.

This project lays the foundations for new methodological advances in L2 speech learning research by testing a wide sample of native English speakers learning Portuguese sound contrasts in a fully web-based experiment.

By focusing on the understudied topic of the interaction between speech production and perception, this project will significantly contribute to the theoretical discussion on how we learn the sounds of a new language.

The project gathers an international research team of linguists, psycholinguists and L2 teachers from NOVA FCSH, University of Toronto and Lancaster University, and it is supported by a national institutional stakeholder and language policymaker, Camões Institute.