This forum article is an attempt to engage in a recent exchange between Figueiredo and Martinez and Kubota whose articles were published in this journal. Bearing out the tenets of the latter author's claims regarding how to confront the dominance of white Euro-American hegemonic knowledge, Figueiredo and Martinez proposed an additional insightful…

In this forum article, we seek to contribute to the discussion initiated by Kubota (in the article entitled 'Confronting epistemological racism, decolonizing scholarly knowledge: race and gender in applied linguistics') on how to confront epistemological racism and to decolonize scholarly knowledge. We begin by endorsing Kubota's three…

English language instructing that simply underscored on punctuation and jargon adapting as opposed to elocution learning had basically held up the second semester understudies in Islamic schools. Understudies imagined that elocution is something hard to learn in light of the fact that they are infrequently shown articulation in the homeroom.…

This article presents the process and results of an action research project which explored the contribution of information gap activities to support a group Honduran ninth-graders' speaking fluency. Their speaking fluency was assessed in terms of speech rate, breakdowns or pauses, and repairs. This study adopted a mixed method approach:…

Background: The number of reliable and valid instruments to measure the effects of therapy in apraxia of speech (AoS) is limited. Aims: To evaluate the newly developed Modified Diadochokinesis Test (MDT), which is a task to assess the effects of rate and rhythm therapies for AoS in a multiple baseline across behaviours design. Methods: The…

Both rate reduction and increased loudness reportedly are associated with an increase in the size of the articulatory-acoustic working space and improved acoustic distinctiveness for speakers with dysarthria. Improved intelligibility also has been reported. Few studies have directly compared rate and loudness effects for speakers with dysarthria,…

Jaw movement patterns were examined longitudinally in a 3-year-old male with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and compared with a typically developing control group. The child with CAS was followed for 8 months, until he began accurately and consistently producing the bilabial phonemes /p/, /b/, and /m/. A movement tracking system was used to…

A series of exercises and a theory of vowel descriptions can help minimize speakers' problems of excessive tension, awareness of tongue height, and tongue retraction. Eight exercises to provide Forward Facial Stretch neutralize tensions in the face and vocal resonator and their effect on the voice. Three experiments in which sounds are repeated…

Discusses phoneticians analyzation and correction of his own speech defects following a stroke. (MM)

Reports a study that indicates many functional speech defects at the first grade level are manifestations of slow development and should not be subject to therapy. (MH)

Describes an apparatus which combines auditory masking, metronomic pacing, and uninterrupted masking in a single unit to aid the stammerer. (MB)

The article discusses teaching articulation to children by the semantically potent word approach (i.e., by using words which have inherent meaning to a child's life experience) and describes a study in which this approach was used with six children (ages three to five years). (DLS)

Describes areas in which aspiring broadcast announcers can be helped, such as correct voice production, precise articulation, proper consonant formation, etc. (PD)

Consideration of directions for future research in stuttering. (CH)

Eighteen children (7-12 years old) with lateral lisps learned correct 1s/articulation through the "straw technique", a procedure designed to eliminate lateral emission. (CL)