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Somin Park – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Little evidence exists on how best to support children's alphabet knowledge, which is a foundational early literacy skill. In this study, I investigated the impact of multisensory alphabet instruction on the alphabet learning of English monolingual and emergent bilingual (EB) children aged 3:5 to 5 years old. My primary aim was to examine whether…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Multisensory Learning, Young Children, Emergent Literacy
Hill, Jennifer Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A 2014 study found that more than half of all Americans aged 16-74 do not possess the literacy skills needed to adequately cope with the demands of day-to-day life, with over 13 million people in the United States alone considered to be functionally illiterate. There have been numerous efforts to address these high illiteracy rates by way of Adult…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Literacy Education, Adult Education, Teaching Methods
Hersey, Anna Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This essay is a guide to Swedish lyric diction for American singers. An overview of the linguistic traits and basic grammar of the Swedish language prepares the reader for a detailed description of Swedish phonemes and their occurrence in the language. Differences in pronunciation conventions as they pertain to classical singing, particularly the…
Descriptors: Swedish, Singing, Phonemes, Pronunciation
Kim, Tae Eun – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation is about Chinese loanwords. It is mainly divided into two parts. Part I is a general discussion about loanwords in Chinese; Chapter I and II belong to the first part. Part II is a discussion about the analyses of Mandarin loanwords originating from English. Chapter III, IV, and V are all related to the second part. Chapter VI is…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Linguistic Borrowing, English, Japanese
Paver, Barbara E. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Foreign language lyric diction is a compulsory subject in all undergraduate vocal performance degrees in universities. However, the effectiveness of its teaching depends on the capacity of students to absorb the material, for which many are largely unprepared, due to their lack of previous language study. Further, native speakers of North American…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Articulation (Speech), Textbooks