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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"spoken English"”.
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Demonstrative clefts in spoken English
… properties of cleft constructions found in spoken New Zealand English. In particular, the main analysis focuses on one cleft type, namely on the demonstrative cleft; examples include (a) 'That's what I had in mind' and (b) 'That's what I thought'. The demonstrative cleft has received little …
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Automatic Assessment of L2 Spoken English
In an increasingly interconnected world where English has become the lingua franca of business, culture, entertainment, and academia, learners of English as a second language (L2) have been steadily growing. This has contributed to an increasing demand for automatic spoken language assessment …
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Deep Learning for Automatic Assessment and Feedback of Spoken English
… learning a second language (L2), particularly English, has led to considerable interest in automatic spoken language assessment, whether for use in computerassisted language learning (CALL) tools or for grading candidates for formal qualifications. This thesis presents research conducted into …
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Exploring Japanese learners' perception, production, and beliefs concerning spoken English contractions
… and performance of 10 adult Japanese speakers of English regarding the phenomenon of contraction in spoken English. Over the course of three months, a collective case study approach involving listening tasks and semi-structured interviews was employed to investigate the topic from multiple …
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A comparative study of variation in stress and intonation patterns in the spoken English of some selected Yoruba and Zulu university undergraduate students
English is a world language. The serious concern for the study and the adaptation of English to the world in general and Nigerian and South African milieu in particular started over a century ago. The study of English has been given new dimension through debates held at conferences and workshops …
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Spoken English at airport/border control customs: Designing and evaluating an interactive model for occupational English with adult second language learners on the go
… user-experiences with a mobile App-delivered English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) training prototype that supports workplace adult second language (L2) language learners in three phases. Phase I consisted of a needs assessment conducted with customs officers from three customs offices …
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Exploring Academic Acculturation Experiences of Chinese International Students with Low Oral English Proficiency: A Musically Enhanced Narrative Inquiry
… and they are also the group with the lowest spoken English scores. Studies have demonstrated that oral English capacity significantly influences international students’ academic acculturation. However, little is known about the lived academic acculturation experiences of Chinese international …
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Measuring the Systemic Mutual Intelligibility of Five English Speakers: A Socio -Phonological Analysis
Finally, I conclude my study by suggesting that English language teachers deploy a contrastive analysis to help students understand how their ways of speaking differ from standard spoken English and other varieties of English, in preparation for developing appropriate speech accommodation …
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Construction, administration, and validation of a test of oral language usage
We as teacher of English are faced with the task of preparing students for the world they will meet when they leave the classroom—a world that will judge them in part by their ability to manipulate the language to their advantage. And yet to measure the use of language, we rely almost exclusively …
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A Study of the Use of English Sentence Stress for the Comprehension of Meaning by Adult Second Language Learners (Psycholinguistics, Arabic, Spanish, Acquisition)
Research interest in the prosody of English has increased in recent years and has resulted in detailed descriptions of some of the prosodic features of the language. There is also now evidence that the prosodic features are vital to communication. One of these features, linguistic stress, is …
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Teachers' perceptions of the use of ASL phonological instruction to develop ASL and English literacy in an ASL/English bilingual preschool
… to understand how teachers who work in an ASL/English bilingual educational program for preschool children conceptualize and utilize phonological instruction of American Sign Language (ASL). While instruction that promotes phonological awareness of spoken English is thought to provide …
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Methodologies used in teaching oral communication skills in secondary schools in Lusaka urban,Zambia
… recognition of the significance of teaching the spoken English language has been on the scene. This study focuses on the choice and effectiveness of methodologies that English Language teachers use to teach Oral Communication Skills (OCSs) to Grade 10 pupils. The study adopted Vygotsky’s (1978) …
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Enhancing Oral Communications for Korean English-as-a-Foreign Language (EFL) Students in Business Settings
… importance of intonations and point of stress in spoken English that most Korean students have difficulty in distinguishing and recognizing in real-life conversations. It also introduces diverse accents of English since many Korean students consider American Standard English as the only “norm” of …
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An investigation of discourse prosody in naturally occuring read text
… onset pitch. This study uses naturally occurring spoken data taken from the Spoken English Corpus, which is a collection of mostly read or prepared monologue. Two types of read text; news broadcasts and a short story were analysed to ascertain whether findings in the literature were generalisable …
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Teaching English in Vietnam : improving the provision in the private sector
Despite the growing need for communicative English skills suited to employment in the fast developing context of Vietnam and government policies stating the will to upgrade delivery of English language within the education system, traditional grammar translation teaching methods still prevail. Many …
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An investigation of primary stress in spontaneous speech for pedagogical purposes
The accurate placement of primary stress in spoken English is an important pronunciation skill for non-native speakers to master. The purpose of the study was to contribute to the understanding of native-speaker primary stress placement, and to discuss the pedagogical implications. Two random …
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A case study on implicit and explicit online pronunciation tutoring to Chinese international graduate students
… where the negative washback from exam-driven English teaching styles is still prominent. This study compared the progress of two Chinese graduate students in a Midwestern university, one received one-on-one implicit instruction and another explicit instruction online. The measurements of …
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ACCULTURATION AND THE PREVALENCE OF DIABETES IN ADULT LATINOS: NHANES 2007-2010
… of birth and predominant language spoken--with the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) in adult U.S. Latinos. Methods: We used data from the 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys , including Latinos aged 20-80 years old (n=3,214). We examined the …
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Position Paper: English Language Curriculum guidelines for elementary School English Language Learners
<p>English Language Development (ELD) and Academic English Development (AED) curricula in most public schools lack a communicative method and consist mostly of dry, meaningless grammar lessons devoid of relevance and authentic context.</p> <p>The purpose of this project is to develop guidelines to …
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Listening to young learners : applying the Montessori method to English as an Additional Language (EAL) education
… and migration trends in Europe and worldwide, English as an Additional Language (EAL) education is becoming a prominent area of educational research. The discourse around EAL and social justice education has, until now, largely focused on primary, secondary, and post compulsory aged students. …
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