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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Non-Native Speakers of English"”.
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Accent services: Considering the perspectives of non-native speakers of English for a culturally affirming practice
<p>Accent “modification” is a type of service offered by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) that is intended to, among other things, help speakers improve their intelligibility in a target second language. This area of practice has been, and continues to be, a controversial topic amongst scholars …
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Testing the Measurement Invariance of Large-Scale Assessment of Foreign Language Proficiency Using Multiple Group Covariance Structure Analyses and Item Response Modeling
This study has addressed whether the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), which is argued to evaluate the potential success of non-native speakers of English to understand and use standard American English at English speaking higher education institutions, measures the same abilities or …
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Irony in a second language: exploring the comprehension of Japanese speakers of English
This thesis focuses on the extent to which non-native speakers of English understand potentially ironic utterances in a similar way to native speakers. Barbe (1995: 4) sees irony as one of ‘the final obstacles before achieving near native-speaker fluency.’ This assumption is supported by the …
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Infinitival verb complementation: Theory and usage as a basis for pedagogy
The major goal of this study is to develop a set of pedagogical priorities for the teaching of infinitival verb complementation to non-native speakers of English. This goal is pursued through a comprehensive Literature Review in the first chapter, a study of native-speaker usage of infinitival verb …
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Automated methods for correcting errors in grammar and usage
Over the last several decades, the number of electronic documents has increased dramatically. With the growing availability of computers, more and more people are using text editors. However, the development of automated methods for correcting mistakes in text has not progressed as far. Text …
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Examining the Impact of Acquiring the ESL Endorsement on Teacher Knowledge, Dispositions, and English Language Learner Performance on a Standardized Mathematics Test
… States has changed the demographic make-up of students in general education classrooms. Data from the 2000 Census establish that more than 14 million immigrants entered the United States during the 1990s. The percentage of English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. public schools increased …
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A corpus-based investigation of the phraseology in various genres of written English with applications to the teaching of English for academic purposes
… an investigation into the various kinds of fixed expressions or prefabricated language which occur in certain genres of written academic English. A basic premise is that language users, when they write, remember phrases as much as, or more than, they compose them. Although the grammar of …
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The Use of Materials for the Teaching of Culture in ELT
The aim of this study is to access the experiences of teachers of English (i.e. English as a foreign language teachers) when teaching cultural elements through coursebooks which are assigned by their schools/universities, and the materials which they use to deliver these lessons plus the activities …
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The (MIS)Match between the Curriculum and Assessment Policy and Classroom Practice in English First Additional Language: A Case of Secondary Schools in Limpopo Province, South Africa
This study explored the use of English First Additional Language (EFAL) as a Language of Learning and Teaching (LoLT) in three Non-Native Speakers of English (NNSE) rural high schools, in Limpopo province. This was triggered by the realisation that the silence that arises in the classroom when …
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Sensitive periods for second language acquisition: A reaction time study of the syntactic processing of English by Korean-English bilinguals
The primary goal of this research project was to find out how the ultimate proficiency in a second language is affected by the age at which learners begin learning the language. A further goal was to determine the differences and similarities in language processing by native and non-native speakers …
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An ecological systems theory approach to academic acculturation of female international students from the Arab Gulf
This qualitative case study of female international graduate students from Arab Gulf countries explores their experiences of academic acculturation to their graduate programs, university, and community, and uses Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems model as a framework to understand these …
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Predicting Academic Success among First-Year, First Generation Students
Due to immigration the non-Hispanic White population continues to decrease and the population continues to change in regard to the ethnic and racial make-up. As these demographic changes take place higher education institutions will face increasing pressure from stakeholders to create environments …
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The professional development of tourist police in Thailand : an investigation into English communication competency
Tourism plays a. major role in the economy of Thailand and the service sector has been oriented to the provision of services for international tourists, many of whom are native or non-native speakers of English. The Royal Thai Police have a Tourist Police Division (TPD) whose officers assist …
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ESL speakers' production of English lexical stress: The effect of variation in acoustic correlates on perceived intelligibility and nativeness
<p>Non-native speakers of English often experience problems in pronunciation as they are learning English, many such problems persisting even when the speaker has achieved a high degree of fluency. Research has shown that for a non-native speaker to sound most natural and intelligible in his or her …
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Effects of Holistic and Analytic Instructional Approaches on the Acquisition of Various Types of Formulaic Sequences: An Empirical Study of Adult Learners of English as a Second Language
… instructional approaches affected adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners production and recognition of target formulaic sequences, as measured by oral and written responses on pretest and posttest and a psycholinguistic experiment. Specifically, the goal of the study was to …
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Establishing a Unified Model of Academic Literacy and a Method for Measuring Academic Readiness
… have created a need for the development of a model of academic literacy and a corresponding means of measuring academic readiness that addresses contextualized, communicative English language competence.</p> <p>This paper presents a unified model of academic literacy which treats language …
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EFFECTS OF SPEAKER'S ACCENT IN A MULTIMEDIA TUTORIAL ON NON-NATIVE STUDENTS' LEARNING AND ATTITUDES
<p>Research in the field of multimedia has yielded principles for the design of effective multimedia instructional messages including Mayer's principles regarding voice. According to the voice principle, students learn more deeply when the narration in a multimedia lesson is spoken by a native …
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English as a lingua franca: developing a tool to improve international business communication
In this project, I investigated the challenges of communication in international teams that use English as their lingua franca in a business setting. The project’s intention was to develop a training or coaching product (the doctoral artefact) that would help native speakers of English adjust …
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Language Competence and Information Processing Strategy: A Comparison of First and Second Language Word Recognition in Connected Speech
The purpose of this study is to explore the difference in word recognition strategy between first language (L1) and second language (L2) listeners. On the basis of the weak-interactive view, the stage hypothesis, and the short-circuit theory, the researcher predicted L2 listeners use top-down …
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Non-native text analysis with Syntactic Diff, a general comparative text mining framework
Non-native speakers of English far outnumber native speakers; English is the main language of books, newspapers, airports, air-traffic control, international business, academic conferences, science, technology, diplomacy, sports, international competitions, pop music, and advertising [1]. Online …
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