Abstract
AbstractA nine‐week empirical study of 25 adults in a second language (L2) Spanish phonetics course explored whether students' participation in service‐learning language exchange sessions with native Spanish speakers outside of class influenced learners' (1) motivation for foreign language learning and (2) phonemic perception in Spanish. Divided into service‐learning and non‐service‐learning groups, participants overall showed a significant pre‐ to post‐study improvement in phonemic perception as well as a substantial decrease or increase on four L2 motivational factors. However, no significant differences surfaced between the experimental and the control groups.
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