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Pavel Trofimovich

Pavel Trofimovich

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
40
Citations
7823
World Ranking
5322
National Ranking
314

Overview

Pavel Trofimovich is affiliated with Concordia University in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities and Psychology, with a strong focus on Language and Linguistics as well as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Their work addresses various aspects within language acquisition and use.

Their scholarly output features frequent publication in venues such as:

  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • Journal of Second Language Pronunciation
  • System
  • Modern Language Journal
  • Applied Psycholinguistics

Trofimovich's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Trofimovich include:

  • Kim McDonough
  • Mary Grantham O'Brien
  • Rachael Lindberg
  • Aki Tsunemoto
  • Oguzhan Tekin

Recent publications by Trofimovich examine various dimensions of second language pronunciation and comprehension. Notable papers include:

  • Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct, 2020, Journal of Second Language Pronunciation
  • Pre-service teachers' beliefs about second language pronunciation teaching, their experience, and speech assessments, 2020, Language Teaching Research (authored by Aki Tsunemoto with Trofimovich as co-author)
  • THE EFFECTS OF TALKER VARIABILITY AND FREQUENCY OF EXPOSURE ON THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN WORD KNOWLEDGE, 2021, Studies in Second Language Acquisition (authored by Takumi Uchihara with Trofimovich as co-author)
  • VISUAL CUES AND RATER PERCEPTIONS OF SECOND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSIBILITY, ACCENTEDNESS, AND FLUENCY, 2021, Studies in Second Language Acquisition (authored by Aki Tsunemoto with involvement)
  • Dunning-Kruger effect in second language speech learning: How does self perception align with other perception over time?, 2020, Learning and Individual Differences (authored by Kazuya Saito with involvement)

The scientist's work integrates experimental approaches to language teaching and learning, focusing on second language pronunciation, comprehensibility, and speech assessment. Their research contributes to understanding how language learners acquire and are perceived in spoken communication within multilingual and educational contexts.

Best Publications

  • Learning Second Language Suprasegmentals: Effect of L2 Experience on Prosody and Fluency Characteristics of L2 Speech

    Pavel Trofimovich;Wendy Baker

  • Disentangling accent from comprehensibility

    Pavel Trofimovich;Talia Isaacs

  • Deconstructing comprehensibility: identifying the linguistic influences on listeners' L2 comprehensibility ratings

    Talia Isaacs;Pavel Trofimovich

  • Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness of L2 Speech: The Role of Listener Experience and Semantic Context

    Sara Kennedy;Pavel Trofimovich

  • Learners' Ethnic Group Affiliation and L2 Pronunciation Accuracy: A Sociolinguistic Investigation

    Elizabeth Gatbonton;Pavel Trofimovich;Michael Magid

  • Interaction of Native- and Second-Language Vowel System(s) in Early and Late Bilinguals:

    Wendy Baker;Pavel Trofimovich

  • Second language speech production: Investigating linguistic correlates of comprehensibility and accentedness for learners at different ability levels

    Kazuya Saito;Pavel Trofimovich;Talia Isaacs

  • Using Listener Judgments to Investigate Linguistic Influences on L2 Comprehensibility and Accentedness: A Validation and Generalization Study

    Kazuya Saito;Pavel Trofimovich;Talia Isaacs

  • Using Priming Methods in Second Language Research

    Kim McDonough;Pavel Trofimovich

  • Pronunciation Teaching Practices in Communicative Second Language Classes.

    Jennifer Ann Foote;Pavel Trofimovich;Laura Collins;Fernanda Soler Urzúa

  • Repetition and Focus on Form in Processing L2 Spanish Words: Implications for Pronunciation Instruction

    Pavel Trofimovich;Elizabeth Gatbonton

  • Perceptual Paths to Accurate Production of L2 Vowels: The Role of Individual Differences.

    Wendy Baker;Pavel Trofimovich

  • Child-adult differences in second-language phonological learning: the role of cross-language similarity.

    Wendy Baker;Pavel Trofimovich;James E. Flege;Molly Mack

  • Second Language Comprehensibility Revisited: Investigating the Effects of Learner Background

    Dustin Crowther;Pavel Trofimovich;Kazuya Saito;Talia Isaacs

  • Some Input on the Easy/Difficult Grammar Question: An Empirical Study

    Laura Collins;Pavel Trofimovich;Joanna White;Walcir Cardoso

  • Language awareness and second language pronunciation: a classroom study

    Sara Kennedy;Pavel Trofimovich

  • Learning prosody and fluency characteristics of second language speech: The effect of experience on child learners' acquisition of five suprasegmentals

    Pavel Trofimovich;Wendy Baker

  • Does a Speaking Task Affect Second Language Comprehensibility

    Dustin Crowther;Pavel Trofimovich;Talia Isaacs;Kazuya Saito

  • Lexical Profiles of Comprehensible Second Language Speech: The Role of Appropriateness, Fluency, Variation, Sophistication, Abstractness, and Sense Relations.

    Kazuya Saito;Stuart Webb;Pavel Trofimovich;Talia Isaacs

  • Flawed self-assessment: Investigating self- and other-perception of second language speech ∗

    Pavel Trofimovich;Talia Isaacs;Sara Kennedy;Kazuya Saito

Frequent Co-Authors

Kim McDonough
Kim McDonough Concordia University
Norman Segalowitz
Norman Segalowitz Queensland University of Technology
Stuart Webb
Stuart Webb University of Western Ontario
Nick C. Ellis
Nick C. Ellis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James Emil Flege
James Emil Flege University of Alabama at Birmingham

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