The acquisition of L2 phonology

 Content: Janusz Arabski and Adam Wojtaszek: Introduction to the volumePart 1: Phonetic analysis 1. Abeer Nasser Eddine: Second language acquisition: the articulation of vowels and the importance of tools in the learning process 2. Luo Xiaorong and Gao Jian: On phonetic negative transfer from Chinese to English 3. Linda Shockey: Understanding l 2 and the perspicacious Pole 4. Arkadiusz Rojczyk: Perception of the English Voice Onset Time continuum by Polish learners  5. Marta Nowacka: The productive and receptive acquisition of consonants and connected speech by Polish students of English Part II: Phonological analysis 6. Monika Kusiak: The role of phonological awareness in beginning reading: a cross-linguistic perspective 7. Anna Bloch-Rozmej: Aspects of phonological strength: evidence from language acquisition 8. Liliana Piasecka: The role of phonemic awareness in the development of l 1 and l 2 readingPart III: Pedagogical perspectives 9. Danuta Gabry?-Barker: Phonological issues in second language acquisition studies: focus areas and implications for FL instructional practices 10. Wies?awa Ferlacka and W?odzimierz Sobkowiak: PDI as a tool of phonetic enhancements to graded e-readers 11. Tammy Gregersen: Suprasegmentals: tools for increased language teacher effectiveness 12. Miros?aw Pawlak: Students' successes and failures in learning foreign language pronunciation: insights from diary data