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Speaking American
<p>This thesis is a collection of four short stories and four poems. The stories and poems incorporate the usual emotions, experiences and situations that humans encounter on a daily basis.</p>
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The effects of speaking rate and speaking mode on intelligibility
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Speaking Holler Creek
Speaking Holler Creek is a collection of short stories written while teaching English for a community college near my hometown. I moved home in December, after six years of being away. What began as a way to remember all the hilarious and sometimes unbelievable events that took place while living …
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L'nuisimk (Speaking Mi'kmaq)
… generation through baby talk, then transition to speaking at home with both parents and children. The next transition after will be moving to speaking with other community members within the area with basic conversational phrases. The true answer to solve this problem revolves around the fellow …
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Speaking on the record
… Spriting in its general form is the activity of speaking 'on the record' that yields a technologically-supported representation of oral speech with essential properties of writing such as permanence of record, possibilities of editing, indexing, and scanning, but without the difficult transition …
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Speaking up! Adult ESL students' perceptions of native and non-native English speaking teachers.
Research to date on the native versus non-native English speaker teacher (NEST versus non-NEST) debate has primarily focused on teacher self-perception and performance. A neglected, but essential, viewpoint on this issue comes from English as a second language (ESL) students themselves. This study …
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The Speaking Cognitions and Attention Scale: An Empirically-Derived Measure of Public Speaking Anxiety
<p>Although public speaking anxiety is one of the most commonly reported causes of both clinical and non-clinical anxiety, many of the currently used questionnaire measures of public speaking anxiety do not reflect the advances made in recent decades regarding empirical methods of test …
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Socializing English-Speaking Navajo Children
… This study examined how three young English-speaking Navajo children, ages 3, 4 and 6, were socialized to tell stories. The broad research question that guided this work was, 'How are young English-speaking Navajo children socialized to tell stories?' The following methods were used: (a) …
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Therapists' Perceived Influence of Language: Second Language Spanish Speaking Therapists with Native Spanish-Speaking Clients
… a second language and work with native Spanish-speaking clients. Data analysis was completed using ethnographic research methods, which resulted in the emergence of three themes. The first theme included therapists' perceived obstacles to second-language therapy. Each of the participants in the …
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Developing the technique of choral speaking
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1950 C66
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Deliberate Practice in Professional Speaking Expertise
… to explore expertise development in professional speaking from the perspective of deliberate practice. A convenience sample of 10 elite and 12 experienced professional members of the National Speakers Association participated in 30-60 minute phone interviews in which they described behaviors and …
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Spanish-Speaking Limited English-Proficient Patient Satisfaction and Comfort When Comparing Spanish-Speaking Provider to An Interpreter
… (LEP) with about 64% of those being Spanish-speaking. This creates challenges in navigating the American healthcare system, where the majority of providers are solely English-speaking. Studies have demonstrated that when patients have language discordant appointments without interpreters, …
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Whose Voices? Perceptions Concerning Native English Speaking and Non-Native English Speaking Tutors in the Writing Center
… was to determine the roles that Native English speaking (NES) and non-native English speaking (NNES) tutors play in sessions with NES and NNES tutees in a U.S. Midwestern university's writing center, according to the perceptions of both types of tutors and tutees. The study also aimed to …
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Speaking Up, Speaking Out, and Making Movements: How Employee Activists Raise Social, Political, and Moral Concerns at Work
This dissertation explores how employee activists raise social, political, and moral concerns at work. To do this, I draw on interviews with employee activists, an archival database of white-collar employee activism events between 2018-2022, a three-day participant observation in employee activism …
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Communication Equity: Perspectives from Spanish-Speaking Families
… and linguistically diverse communities. Spanish-speaking Hispanics/Latinos, the largest ethnic and linguistic minority in the U.S., experience layers systemic of inequities that further compound access to and engagement in training, like CPI. In these communities, family members often serve as …
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The speaking career of Pat Morris Neff.
… and record facts concerning the life and speaking of Mr. Neff, a native Texan, who has been rated frequently as "an eloquent speaker." The study was made using the following speeches: (1) a specialized biography of Pat Morris Neff as a speaker; (2) personality and characteristics of Mr. …
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