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Vesta T. Silva; Jon Wiebel – Communication Center Journal, 2024
It has become increasingly clear that we as communication center professionals must confront the deeply rooted linguistic assumptions and traditions that underlie notions of speaking well. In this essay, we argue that one place to start is to look closely how and why conceptions of speaking well have come to rest on an unquestioned ideal of what…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Speech Communication, Literacy, Oral Language
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Kristopher Kyle; Hakyung Sung; Masaki Eguchi; Fred Zenker – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Although lexical diversity is often used as a measure of productive proficiency (e.g., as an aspect of lexical complexity) in SLA studies involving oral tasks, relatively little research has been conducted to support the reliability and/or validity of these indices in spoken contexts. Furthermore, SLA researchers commonly use indices of lexical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Validity
Charles Ernest Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This Dissertation addresses findings from a qualitative case study. The researcher provided a) training and b) analysis of the follow-up performance of a Peer Mentor from the Student Success Center at an Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Following the training, prepared by Charles Ernest Wright, the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Undergraduate Students, Mentors
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Nico Lehmann; Vahid Mortezapour; Jozina Vander Klok; Zahra Farokhnejad; David Müller; Elisabeth Verhoeven; Aria Adli – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2025
We present a new corpus design for multi-lingual corpora that involve intra-speaker variation in different situational-functional contexts, including primarily spoken but also the written mode, with the aim towards enhancing language documentation efforts and resources. We illustrate how this comparative design and the resulting cross-culturally…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Computational Linguistics, Language Variation, Language Research
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Elodie Sabatier; Jacqueline Leybaert; Fabienne Chetail – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Children are assumed to acquire orthographic representations during autonomous reading by decoding new written words. The present study investigates how deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children build new orthographic representations compared to typically hearing (TH) children. Method: Twenty-nine DHH children, from 7.8 to 13.5 years old,…
Descriptors: French, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Orthographic Symbols
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Mike Metz; Matthew J. Gordon; Thanh P. Nguyen – Reading Horizons, 2024
This article explores patterns in teachers' reported correction of student language use in speech and writing. The authors use the concept of language correction in student writing and student speech as a proxy for prescriptive approaches to teaching about language. By conducting a large-scale survey of all language and literacy teachers from…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Speech Communication
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Abdulaziz Alarifi; Benjamin V. Tucker – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigated the role of orthographic information in the acquisition of non-native speech sounds by monolingual English listeners. Two potentially important orthographic variables were explored: Orthographic compatibility (whether the orthographic information supports or contradicts the distributional information) and orthographic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Auditory Discrimination, Cues
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Ruth Swanwick; Samantha Goodchild; Elisabetta Adami – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This paper critically analyses the meaning and use of translanguaging as an inclusive pedagogical strategy in the context of a bilingual deaf education classroom where there are asymmetrical sensorial experiences of being deaf and being hearing, and different access to 'codified' (either speech or sign-language) resources. The pedagogical…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Teaching Methods, Bilingual Education, Deafness
Shakhlo Nematova – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Prior research has extensively explored audiovisual speech perception and literacy skills in various linguistic contexts. Studies have shown that children's ability to integrate auditory and visual speech cues plays a crucial role in language acquisition and development (Erdener & Burnham, 2013; Lalonde & Werner, 2021). Furthermore,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Speech Communication, Phonological Awareness
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Yu-An Lu; Cheng-Huan Lee – Second Language Research, 2024
This article provides a review of previous studies that have examined the effects of orthography on establishing contrastive phonological representations in second language acquisition and presents results from an original study on Mandarin speakers' production of English stops investigating how the presence of orthography affects the production…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Speech Communication, Contrastive Linguistics, Written Language