Language Learning: Social Skills Challenged by Social Distancing and Masks

Abstract

Language learners depend on watching instructors’ rounding lips and twisting tongues to produce new language sounds. Students recreate the foreign syllables modeled before them by examining how mouth-corners curl and teeth hold back air. Their goal is audible speech, but the learning process is riddled with visual cues.

Publication Date

10-8-2020

Keywords

Cedarville, Cedarville University, COVID, foreign language

Recommended Citation

Weinstein, Mark D., "Language Learning: Social Skills Challenged by Social Distancing and Masks" (2020). News Releases. 1181.
https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/news_releases/1181