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Classroom Acoustics for Enhancing Students' Understanding When a Teacher Suffers from a Dysphonic Voice
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Pasquale Bottalico; Silvia Murgia; Taylor Mekus; Mary Flaherty – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to assess the acoustical conditions in which optimal intelligibility and low listening difficulty can be achieved in real classrooms for elementary students, taking into consideration the effects of dysphonic voice and typical classroom noise. Method: Speech intelligibility tests were performed in six…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Classroom Environment, Voice Disorders, Intelligibility
The Impact of Print Exposure on Deaf Student Literacy
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Stéphanie Colin; Jean Ecalle; Annie Magnan – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025
Recent studies suggest that benefiting early from both a cochlear implant (CI) and exposure to cued speech (CS, support system for the perception of oral language) positively impacts deaf children's speech perception, speech intelligibility, and reading. This study aims to show how: 1/CS-based speech perception ("cue reading"), and…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Cued Speech, Reading, Opportunities
Early Literacy, Speech, and the Importance of the Multidisciplinary Team Collaborating to Determine Appropriate Interventions for Data-Driven Decisions
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Stiltner, Stephanie Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This mixed methods retrospective analysis analyzed change using a linguistic-based approach during speech therapy among first or second-grade students with a speech sound disorder. Measures analyzed change within intelligibility, phonemic awareness, decoding, ability to apply skills, and response to IEP goals related to speech. Five schools…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Speech Therapy, Speech Impairments, Grade 1
Developing Language Awareness Activities in the Context of Plurilingual Education: Two Didactic Models for Language Teaching Practice
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Natascha Drachmann – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Within educational research, there has been an increased interest in recent years to develop learners' language awareness (LA) in the context of plurilingual education. Recommendations and intentions are given pointing to the benefits, but there are few concrete tools for how it can be carried out in practice. The article seeks to contribute to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teacher Attitudes, Models, Metalinguistics
Efficacy of an Integrated Intervention with Vocabulary and Phonetic Training for Mandarin-Speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorders
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Chen, Yuchun; Lin, Wen-Jing – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2022
Background: Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) demonstrate deficits in vocabulary development and novel word learning processes, which have been proposed to stem from their speech perception deficits. Aims: This study had two aims. The first was to evaluate the efficacy of an intervention incorporating a computer-based phonetic…
Descriptors: Intervention, Phonetics, Vocabulary Development, Language Impairments
Intercomprehension in Primary School: Discovering Languages and Constructing Knowledge
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Barbeiro, Luis Filipe – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2009
This article discusses the potential value of developing pupils' intercomprehension skills at elementary school. This development construes Europe as a plurilingual and intercultural space in which the linguistic and cultural identity of each community finds its place. However, the construction of Europe also faces the challenges of assuring…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Romance Languages, Elementary School Students