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Erskine, Michelle Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There is a long-standing gap in literacy achievement between African American and European American students (e.g., NAEP, 2019, 2022). A large body of research has examined different factors that continue to reinforce performance differences across students. One variable that has been a long-term interest to sociolinguists and applied scientists…
Descriptors: Children, Comprehension, Black Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage
Gamboa, Raúl A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation deals with the perception of the aspirated coda /s/ by Spanish L2 learners. Second language research, with some exceptions, focuses on whether L1English-L2 Spanish learners can perceive the aspirated variant, showing that only advanced learners with time spent in s-weakening regions succeed at the task. L2 studies about…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Attitudes, Intonation
Rouhollahi, Amir – ProQuest LLC, 2023
It has been shown in the past that International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) struggle with phonological and communication issues in the classroom (Pickering, 1999; 2001). This issue leads to misunderstandings between ITAs and undergraduate students, frustrating them both as well as the parents of the students and the departments. However, studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Teaching Assistants, Computer Assisted Instruction
Lee, Dae-yong – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As there is a growing population of non-native speakers worldwide, facilitating communication involving native and non-native speakers has become increasingly important. While one way to help communication involving native and non-native speakers is to help non-native speakers improve proficiency in their target language, another way is to help…
Descriptors: Generalization, Intercultural Communication, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
Sarah Kay Roberts – ProQuest LLC, 2020
A problem exists in the inequitable opportunities experienced by nonnative accented students in terms of academics, belongingness, and self-efficacy because of accent bias in the United States high schools. The purpose of this qualitative interpretative phenomenological analysis was to explore accent bias for nonnative-accented students in a high…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Dialects, Bias, Creoles
Franklin, Lauren R. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Speech is extremely variable along many different dimensions. One source of variability listeners often encounter is accented speech, in which phonological units can systematically differ from the listener's native categories. This dissertation presents five experiments testing how listeners adapt to accent-based phonological variability,…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Speech Communication, Language Variation, Phonology
Sarah Aldossari – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The study explores the attitudes of undergraduate Flagship students in the United States towards Arabic-accented speech in English. It examines the Familiarity Principle among these students and analyzes their attitudes based on socio-intellectual status, aesthetic quality, and dynamism of Arabic-accented speech. The study also discusses the…
Descriptors: Arabic, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation
Potratz, Jill R. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) make impressionistic intelligibility judgments as part of an evaluation of children for speech sound disorders. Despite the lack of formalization, it is an important measure of choice for SLPs, going beyond single-word standardized measures by using spontaneous speech to assess functional communication. However,…
Descriptors: Children, Monolingualism, Speech Impairments, Speech Communication
Anongnard Nusartlert – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Minority languages in diglossic situations with a majority language face the danger of eventual loss of vitality. The first sign of this is when child language acquisition begins to erode. This dissertation investigates the intergenerational transmission of the Isan language, spoken in the Northeastern region of Thailand. While the Isan community…
Descriptors: Thai, Family Relationship, Language Maintenance, Mutual Intelligibility
Guillem Belmar Viernes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is a significant diaspora of Mixtec people residing along California's Central Coast, mostly working in the agricultural sector. The new realities in the diaspora have brought Mixtec varieties in contact in new contexts where they co-exist with other Mexican Indigenous languages, as well as with Spanish and English. We urgently need more…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indian Culture, Immigrants, American Indians
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
Hitoshi Nishizawa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many studies evidence the flexibility of speech perception in the first language (L1), which allows rapid adaptation to unfamiliar foreign accents. Two influential studies by Bradlow and Bent (2008) and a follow-up study by Baese-Berk et al. (2013) found that increased variability as a function of the number of talkers and accents facilitated the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Auditory Perception, Pronunciation
King, Edward Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Spoken words vary phonetically along a number of dimensions, such as duration, pitch, and vowel quality. Much of this variation is associated with social factors like the dialect, age, or gender of the speaker -- a type of variation termed 'socio-indexical'. Traditional theories of speech perception have seen this socio-indexical variation as a…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Word Recognition, Phonetics, Intonation
Ruqayyah Althubyani – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study aimed to investigate the role that phonetic convergence plays in the acquisition of L2 segments. In particular, it examined whether phonetic convergence towards native speakers could help Arabic-speaking second-language (L2) learners of English improve their pronunciation of four problematic English segments (/p, v, [open-mid front…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Phonetics
Kevin R. Hirschi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Millions engage in learning a Second Language (L2) using their mobile devices with a wide range of success. Concomitantly, there exists a growing interest in research on the effects of mobile-assisted language learning and predictors of learner outcomes (e.g., Loewen et al., 2020; Sudina & Plonsky, 2023). However, few of these apps and studies…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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