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Asratie, Mekuriaw Genanew; Wale, Bantalem Derseh; Aylet, Yibeltal Tadele – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Educational speaking technology is a digital expertise used to enhance speaking performance. This research examined the effects of using educational speaking technology tools: FORVO, YouGlish, and OALD 8th ed. to enhance students' speaking performance. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest two groups design was used. Test, questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Speech Communication, Program Effectiveness
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Wall, Meryl J.; Myers, Florence L. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1982
The paper summarizes recent thinking on several aspects of early childhood stuttering, including the acquisition of fluency in young children and its relationship to language acquisition, the relationship of normal childhood nonfluencies to early stuttering, stuttering's relationship to language acquisition, and psycholinguistic influences on…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Fluency, Linguistics, Speech Skills
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Prins, David; Hubbard, Carol P. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1988
Experimental studies are reviewed in which stuttering and speech disfluency were subjected to response contingent stimuli (RCS). Research issues are discussed, including response-stimulus contiguity, subject awareness, behavior definitions, stimulus control of responses, subject variability, effects of RCS on nonstuttered speech parameters,…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Language Fluency, Operant Conditioning, Research Methodology
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Zebrowski, Patricia M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1995
This paper reviews studies of conversational turn-management timing behaviors used by children who stutter and their parents. Temporal aspects of conversations between children who stutter and their parents do not differ significantly from parent-nonstuttering child conversations. Parental manipulation of speech rate and response-time latency may…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Connected Discourse, Dialogs (Language), Interpersonal Communication
Hall, Stephen – 1997
Pronunciation teaching of the segmental aspects needs to be balanced with the inclusion of learner awareness of stress, rhythm, intonation and meaningful production. Yet many formats for pronunciation teaching do not place these skills and an awareness of the suprasegmental features in either a communicative format or a specific speaking…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Fluency
Graham, C. Ray – 1984
Research suggests that assimilative motivation is largely responsible for the development of native-like speech in both first and second languages. Analysis of anecdotal evidence of early bilingual development, studies of dialect acquisition, bilingual immersion programs, and studies of language pidginization illustrating the development of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Educational Research, English (Second Language), Intercultural Communication