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Luo, Beate – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
This study investigates a computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) technique that combines oral reading with peer review to improve pronunciation of Taiwanese English major students. In addition to traditional in-class instruction, students were given a short passage every week along with a recording of the respective text, read by a native…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Pronunciation, Second Language Instruction, Peer Evaluation
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Kong, Anthony Pak-Hin; Yeh, Chun-Chih – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2015
Background: Various quantitative systems have been proposed to examine aphasic oral narratives in English. A clinical tool for assessing discourse produced by Cantonese-speaking persons with aphasia (PWA), namely Main Concept Analysis (MCA), was developed recently for quantifying the presence, accuracy and completeness of a narrative. Similar…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Mandarin Chinese, Oral Language, Narration
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Jeng, Jing-Yi; Weismer, Gary; Kent, Ray D. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2006
The primary objective of the present study was to document tone production and intelligibility deficits in Mandarin-speaking persons with cerebral palsy (CP). Spastic, athetoid, and mixed types of CP were studied, along with a control group, to investigate the possibility of tone production and intelligibility deficits that were differentially…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Mandarin Chinese, Control Groups, Cerebral Palsy