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چکیده
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Abstract: The study aimed at finding the relationship among hemispheric dominance, gender, attitude towards L1 and L2, and learning suprasegmental features. To this end, 200 Intermediate EFL students, who were chosen using convenient sampling, constituted the sample. Edinburgh Handedness Questionnaire, which ranges from -100 for left handed to +100 for right-handed people, was used to determine the hemispheric dominance of each participant. Prior to the main stage of the study, Oxford Solution Placement Test (OPT) was used to homogenize the proficiency level of all the participants. In the main stage, participants were asked to take the suprasegmental features test, in which they had to listen to each item once and record their voice when they were ready. The results of the independent samples t-tests indicated left-brained language learners’ superiority in observing and learning suprasegmental features. It was also found that females are better than males in producing suprasegmental features. Furthermore, the results of Pearson correlations indicated significant relationship between attitude towards L2 and learning suprasegmental features. However, no similar relationship was found between attitude towards L1 and learning English suprasegmental features. The findings of this study can provide language learners, instructors and authors of language books, and scholars in the filed with a handful of pedagogical and testing implications.
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