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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Non-native english speakers"”.
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Analyzing Communication Performance: A Comparison of Native-English Speakers and Non-Native English Speakers
… purpose of this thesis was to research how well native and non-native English speakers proficiently communicated using learned Air Traffic Control (ATC) phraseology, and how well they communicated using plain phraseology. The participants in this study were <a …
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Comparing the interpretation of text message punctuation by native and non-native English speakers
… a mixed-methods design to investigate the ways native English speakers and L2 English learners perceive punctuation in text messages. The data set includes responses from a survey, which led participants to rate and describe a series of text messages, and from follow-up interviews, which allowed …
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Non-native speaker attitudes toward non-native English accents
The increasing number of proficient, non-native English speakers, both in U.S. academic institutions and around the globe, warrants considerable investigation into possible norms developing within non-native to non-native interactions. This report analyzes attitudes toward accent, a prominent …
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The Effects of Foreign Accent and Language on Reaction Time and Accuracy in an Air Traffic Control Task
… 40 years of age. Half of the participants were native speakers of Spanish who began learning English as a second language via the classroom setting. The other half were native English-speaking with little or no exposure to the Spanish language. The experimental design was similar to an aviation …
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Culturally Relevant ESL Pedagogy for California Community College Teacher Educators
… are often involved in teaching immigrants and non-native English speakers of color. In contrast to the student body, California community college teacher demographics remain overwhelmingly homogenous, as over 82% of full and part-time community college instructors are Caucasian. These diverging …
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Automated methods for text correction
… problem of correcting writing mistakes made by non-native English speakers. We address several types of errors commonly exhibited by non-native English writers – misuse of articles, prepositions, noun number, and verb properties – and build a robust, state-of-the-art system that combines machine …
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Colossal classroom adventure: Developing interactive fiction for English language learners
… develop a text based interactive adventure for non-native English speakers to hone their extensive reading skills in American English. The history of text based gaming will be used to establish a guide over the potential pitfalls unique to the genre. Then the uses of games in an educational …
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Speech intelligibility: a study of Iraqi EFL learners’ accented English
… refers to a targeted pronunciation level in English which enables non-native English speakers to produce and understand English speech uttered by both native and non-native English speakers (Abercrombie, 1949; Gimson, 2001; Cruttenden, 2014; Munro and Derwing, 2006; Levis, 2016). Instead of …
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The Ability of Americans to Determine Accent Or Language Spoken Solely on Nonverbal Aspects of Expression
… to confirm the common observations that speakers of differenct dialects and languages differ in nonverbal behaviors. Twelve Asian speakers were used. Six spoke English as their native language and 6 spoke Chinese as their native language. A total of 30 American viewers watched the …
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Teaching Reading As An Integrated Skill: An Evaluation of Two Popular ESL Textbooks
<p>As the population of non-native English speakers rises in the United States, so too does the need for effective English language instruction, and with that, effective instructional materials. With a growing population of adult English language learners with below basic prose literacy, the need …
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Comparison of field and laboratory usability testing for mobile text entry
… study was the difference in performance of native and non-native English speaker's at a text entry task this study showed that there was a significant difference in performance of native and non-native English speakers. This suggested that culture also effects usability testing of mobile …
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CONCEPT DEFINITION, ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT FOR ART EDUCATION
… with age but was significantly lower for non-native English speakers. The test format which asked Subjects to make perceptual discriminations and apply concepts to unfamiliar works of art proved to be an extremely effective tool for prompting close inspection of the artworks and lively …
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Evaluation of NES and NNES students' perceptions of NES and NNES instructors in Engineering
… TAs/instructors. The previous literature on native English speaking students' perceptions of Non-Native-English-Speaking instructors has shown that language barriers and accents have been a cause for difficulties within the class between instructors and students. Thus, this paper aims to look …
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Writing Matters: Investigating the Quality of Collegiate Aviation Incident Report Narratives
… differences in rubric scores were found between native and non-native English speakers and between domestic and international students. A significant correlation was also found between median total rubric score and agreement with “Writing is an important skill to have as a pilot.” Further …
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Chinese Tertiary Students' Willingness to Communicate in English
… abroad, many initially struggle to engage with native English speakers due to limited opportunities to develop oral English skills within their homeland (Gu and Maley, 2008). The reasons why Chinese students' may exhibit varied levels of motivation to engage with others when they study abroad is …
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EFFECTS OF SPEAKER'S ACCENT IN A MULTIMEDIA TUTORIAL ON NON-NATIVE STUDENTS' LEARNING AND ATTITUDES
… narration in a multimedia lesson is spoken by a native voice rather than a non-native voice. The generalizability of the voice principle has been demonstrated when applied to multimedia users who are native speakers of the language used in narration. However, three out of four English users are …
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Development of English as a Second Language in the Context of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games
… occurred in the conversational exchanges between native (NES) and non-native English speakers (NNESs) playing World of Warcraft. The data consisted of 63 hours of audio-recorded, in-game conversations over a 5-month period. The participants consisted of an NES and 6 NNESs who were divided into two …
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Digital storytelling as an astronomy disciplinary literacy enhancement approach for adolescent Kyrgyzstani EFL students
… STEM-A disciplinary literacy acquisition in English. The research was motivated by the increased significance of English as an international language of STEM instruction and addressed the transition between discourses encountered by students learning STEM in a foreign language. The study was …
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Relationships between lexical proficiency and L2 oral proficiency
… language. Also, few studies have focused on how non-native English speakers with different L1 backgrounds differently or similarly develop lexical proficiency in L2 speaking. Based on this background, the present study is conducted with three purposes: 1) to compare the effectiveness of measures …
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Language Models as Mirrors and Bridges for Intergroup Communication
… language and suggest more inclusive alternatives. In collaboration with PBS Frontline, we demonstrate the potential of LLMs to reduce misunderstanding in journalism and political communication. Second, we present Legal Storytelling, a human-LLM collaboration framework that generates …
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