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Direct linkRoberts, Angela; Aveni, Katharine; Basque, Shalane; Orange, Joseph B.; McLaughlin, Paula; Ramirez, Joel; Troyer, Angela K.; Gutierrez, Stephanie; Chen, Angie; Bartha, Robert; Binns, Malcolm A.; Black, Sandra E.; Casaubon, Leanne K.; Dowlatshahi, Dar; Hassan, Ayman; Kwan, Donna; Levine, Brian; Mandzia, Jennifer; Sahlas, Demetrios J.; Scott, Christopher J. M.; Strother, Stephen; Sunderland, Kelly M.; Symons, Sean; Swartz, Richard – Topics in Language Disorders, 2021
Purpose: Dementia due to cerebrovascular disease (CVD) is common. Detecting early cognitive decline in CVD is critical because addressing risk factors may slow or prevent dementia. This study used a multidomain discourse analysis approach to determine the spoken language signature of CVD-related cognitive impairment. Method: Spoken language and…
Descriptors: Prediction, Discourse Analysis, Language Impairments, Dementia
Download full textTan, Kimberly – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2022
In L2 assessment research, assessments have traditionally been associated with large-scale testing or formal proficiency tests, primarily to record student achievement (Turner & Purpura, 2016). Classroom-based assessments (CBAs), then, are seen as offshoots of large-scale tests, thus, designed similarly (Turner, 2012). However, CBAs serve a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Minga, Jamila; Johnson, Melissa; Blake, Margaret Lehman; Fromm, Davida; MacWhinney, Brian – Topics in Language Disorders, 2021
Purpose: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) commonly causes pragmatic language disorders that are apparent in discourse production. Specific characteristics and approaches to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of these disorders are not well-defined. RHDBank, a shared database of multimedia interactions for the study of communication using…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Databases, Pragmatics, Language Impairments
Julia Reckermann, Editor; Philipp Siepmann, Editor; Frauke Matz, Editor – English Language Education, 2024
This book innovatively connects the two fields of oracy and practice-oriented empirical research in English language education. It creates synergies and proposes innovative approaches to the study of oracy in the context of learning and teaching English as a second, additional or foreign language. The book also develops a contemporary and holistic…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Varcasia, Cecilia – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2019
This paper explores, through the use of the observation checklist and Conversation Analysis (CA), the discourse functions elicited by the dialogic task of the Free University of Bolzano (IT) speaking test. It aims to contribute to content validation, which has been claimed to be especially relevant in paired speaking tests, where interaction is…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Content Validity, Check Lists, Task Analysis
Hella, Pertti; Niemi, Jussi; Hintikka, Jukka; Otsa, Lidia; Tirkkonen, Jani-Matti; Koponen, Hannu – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: Disorganized speech, manifested as derailment, tangentiality, incoherence and loss of goal, occurs commonly in schizophrenia. Studies of language processing have demonstrated that semantic activation in schizophrenia is often disordered and, moreover, the ability to use contextual cues is impaired. Aims: To reconstruct the origins and…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Schizophrenia, Speech Communication, Connected Discourse
Byrd, Courtney T.; Logan, Kenneth J.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2012
Purpose: This study was designed to (a) compare the speech fluency of school-age children who do and do not stutter (CWS and CWNS, respectively) within 2 standard diagnostic speaking contexts (conversation and narration) while also controlling for speaking topic, and (b) examine the extent to which children's performance on such discourse tasks is…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Stuttering, Narration, Story Telling
Shudak, Nicholas J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation is an analytical exploration and evaluation of the concept of diversity. It springs from the author's concern that within the teacher education discourse there is an apparent deficiency regarding analytical effort toward challenging ordinary terms, their strong convictions, and categorical statements stemming from them. In…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Speech Communication, Comparative Education, Discourse Analysis
Ticknor, Anne Swenson – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This longitudinal qualitative study examined how four preservice elementary teachers used language to construct professional identities, learn within relationships, and take risks in the classroom during their final three semesters in teacher education coursework and field experiences. My female participants were former students of mine in the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Speech Communication, Field Experience Programs
Berdan, Robert; Garcia, Maryellen – 1982
The use of observation of natural language interaction as a measure of language proficiency and the impact of discourse characteristics on children's use of Spanish and English as measured by length of utterances are examined. The goal of this observational approach to measuring language proficiency is to distinguish between the effects of change…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedMatthies, Melanie L.; Carney, Arlene Earley – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1988
Two speech perception experiments were conducted with 12 normally hearing adults using a modified speech tracking procedure to determine the effects of controlling connected discourse materials and the effects of specific prompting techniques on tracking rate and subjects' responses. Results showed higher tracking rates for controlled materials.…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedBaker, Carolyn D. – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 1992
Examines the descriptive and analytical work of students and teachers through classroom talk and interaction, using information from audiotaped classroom activities to identify classroom members' work. The article discusses the organization of classroom knowledge, relationships, and order, noting relationships between descriptive and analytic work…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills
Peer reviewedHalmari, Helena – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1993
Examines the evaluative component in bilingual discourse in order to show that for the purpose of evaluation, the bilingual often switches from one language to the other. The study examines spontaneous stories, unplanned short narratives and conversational exchanges occurring in the recorded speech of two Finnish-English bilingual children. (32…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis
