Thomas Roche
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas Roche is involved.
Articles
2017 Road sign romanization in Oman: The linguistic landscape close-up Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:1, pp. 40–70 | Article
Throughout the Arab Gulf States, bilingual road signs are the norm, employing both Arabic and a romanized counterpart for the large expatriate population. The existing romanization is inconsistent, with potentially misleading variant spellings of place names signposting the region. This study… read more
2013 Learning to hear by learning to speak: The effect of articulatory training on Arab learners’ English phonemic discrimination Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 36:2, pp. 146–159 | Article
In this paper we explore English pronunciation teaching within an English as an International Language (EIL) framework, arguing that teaching learners how to produce English phonemes can lead to an improvement in their aural ability. English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners often have… read more