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Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2016
Most of us have read Dale Carnegie's classic "How to make friends and influence people" in which he reveals the secret of human psychology: giving people the "feeling of importance" that they seek. He claims in that work that people feel more friendly toward those who allows them this feeling by caring about them and showing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Workers, Teachers, Pronunciation
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2016
Bayburt University's English Language Teaching (ELT) department, is starting its courses as of 2016 fall season, using the Turkish sage Dede Korkut's tales as part of its speech training curriculum. The story "Wild Dumrul" presented in this article is famous in world literature for its theme of "marital love and sacrifice."…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2017
The main cause of pronunciation problems faced by EFL learners is their lack of a suprasegmental background. Most of those having oral comprehension and expression difficulties are unaware that their difficulty comes from their negligence of concepts of stress, pitch, juncture and linkers. While remedying stress problems, students should be taught…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2016
An ability for a speaker to unite (link) words or to separate (break, juncture) them with a pause in his utterance gives him a special advantage to convey his intended meaning to his audience. If he knows where to unite his words and where to pause between them in speech he is better able to communicate with his listeners, and his words are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Oral Language, Suprasegmentals
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2016
The Oghuz Turks being in existence for many a millenia in Central Asia has a rich cultural heritage conveyed from generation to generation through oral tradition. The "Book of Dede Korkut" discovered in 1815 in Dresden Royal Library by H. F. von Diez sheds light to an important part of that culture. That precious historic literary…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Turkish, Turkic Languages, Books
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2013
Junctures are pauses used in speech separating thought-groups from one another in order to give the listener time to digest the utterance to signal the end. Where junctures are present, hearers find it easier to understand what is said as they are able to discern the individual words between such verbal breaks. Junctures being universal…
Descriptors: French, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2012
Suprasegmental elements such as "stress," "pitch," "juncture" and "linkers" are language universals that are uttered naturally in the mother tongue without prior training but need to be learned systematically in the target language. Among other techniques of "sentential pronunciation teaching" to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Sentences
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Paige, David D.; Magpuri-Lavell, Theresa – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2014
In this article we discuss the specifics of reading fluency and provide suggestions for identifying when reading is fluent and when it is not. We then discuss the important role that reading fluency plays in the attainment of literacy achievement and briefly review research results that highlight the relationship between fluency and comprehension.…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Middle School Students, High School Students, English (Second Language)
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Da Cruz, Fernanda Miranda – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This article reports on an investigation of echolalic repetition in Alzheimer's disease (AD). A qualitative analysis of data from spontaneous conversations with MHI, a woman with AD, is presented. The data come from the DALI Corpus, a corpus of spontaneous conversations involving subjects with AD. This study argues that echolalic effects can be…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Linguistics, Alzheimers Disease, Discourse Analysis
Gorsuch, Greta – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2011
China has become an exporter of material goods to the world, particularly to the United States. It is time for the exploration of a mutually beneficial relationship in a strikingly different realm, that of human capital in higher education and its contributions to the quality of university teaching. To faculty members and students at U.S.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Foreign Students, Graduate Students
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McMahon, April – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
Using evidence from first-hand experimental work and existing studies, Colantoni and Gurlekian take a tentative but encouraging step towards exploring the role of contact in explaining intonational change. Their central question is whether Buenos Aires Spanish intonation is distinctive relative to other varieties of Spanish; and if so, whether…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Spanish, Suprasegmentals, Intonation
Marfo, Charles Ofosu – 2002
This paper discusses the phonology-syntax interface in Akan, a language spoken in Ghana and the Cote d'Ivoire, describing a medium of exchange between phonology and syntax. Studies in lexical phonology have distinguished two levels in phonology--lexical and post-lexical--based on how and where phonological rules apply, although some phonological…
Descriptors: Akan, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Patterns
Picalause, Isabelle – Francais dans le Monde, 1991
Using French, English, and Hungarian accents, and from 1 to 4 voices, students in a Hungarian French language class dramatized and presented 32 versions of a Guillaume d'Apollinaire poem. Factors that varied in the presentations included the number of participants, recitation patterns, tone of voice, props, and physical movement. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Dramatics, Foreign Countries, French
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Elordieta, Gorka; Calleja, Nagore – Language and Speech, 2005
This paper presents patterns of accentual alignment in two varieties of Spanish spoken in the Basque Country: Lekeitio Spanish (LS), with speakers whose other native language is Lekeitio Basque (LB); and Vitoria Spanish (VS), with monolingual speakers of Spanish from the city of Vitoria. These patterns are compared to those of Madrid Spanish (MS),…
Descriptors: Syllables, Monolingualism, Spanish, Indo European Languages
Jung, Woo-hyun – 1994
This discussion of the speech act of thanking looks at the basic functions of the act and responses to it in American English. It is argued that in general, "thank you" expressions are used to express appreciation of benefits and to enhance rapport between interlocutors, and that this basic use is extended to the functions of conversational…
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Language Patterns
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