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Ease and Difficulty in L2 Pronunciation Teaching: A Mini-Review
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 Both L2 learners and their teachers are concerned about pronunciation. While an unspoken classroom goal is often native-accented speech (i.e., a spoken variety of the mother tongue that it not geographically confined to a place within a particular ...
Mary Grantham O’Brien
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Exploring the Relationship Between Listener Comprehensibility Ratings and Actual Comprehension Difficulty : Advancing Comprehensibility Research Through Objective Online Rating Method [PDF]
Within the domain of second language (L2) pronunciation studies, the exploration of factors influencing listeners comprehension has been a focal point. Research on comprehensibility has traditionally relied on listeners’ subjective ratings to gauge the ...
KOBAYASHI, Manami
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LanguagesPrevious research has shown that speakers’ visual appearance influences listeners’ perception of second language (L2) speech. In Québec, Canada, the context of this study, pandemic mask mandates and a provincial secularism law elicited strong societal ...
Sara Kennedy +3 more
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Linguistic correlates of comprehensibility in second language Japanese speech [PDF]
, 2017 This study examined phonological, temporal, lexical and grammatical correlates of native speakers’ perception of second language (L2) comprehensibility (i.e., ease of understanding). L2 learners of Japanese with various proficiency levels engaged in oral
Saito, Kazuya, Akiyama, Yuka
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Adolescents with high‐risk cancer face complex developmental, psychosocial, and ethical challenges that extend beyond disease‐directed treatment. Although international recommendations exist for communication, psychosocial care, pediatric palliative care, survivorship, and shared decision‐making, these have largely evolved within ...
Johanna M. C. Blom +15 more
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Intelligibility-based Instruction and English as a lingua franca
Research in LanguageThis paper draws heavily from my previous work on intelligibility (Hodgetts, 2020). It advocates basing pronunciation instruction on intelligibility goals, rather than native-like production goals and investigates the research available on the segmental
John Hodgetts
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On Theoretical Incomprehensibility
Philosophies, 2019 This contribution tentatively outlines the presumed conceptual duality between the issues of incompleteness and incomprehensibility—The first being more formal in nature and able to be declined in various ways until specified in the literature as ...
Gianfranco Minati
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld +5 more
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How does predicate invention affect human comprehensibility? [PDF]
, 2017 During the 1980s Michie defined Machine Learning in terms of two orthogonal axes of performance: predictive accuracy and comprehensibility of generated hypotheses.
Zeller, C. +9 more
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Establishing levels of arm–hand activities in stroke patients: the arm-hand-activities-scale (AHAS)
Journal of Rehabilitation MedicineObjective: Post-stroke limitations in arm–hand activities are prevalent, yet a system for categorizing these limitations like the Functional Ambulation Categories (FAC) is lacking.
Christina Hebenstreit +3 more
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