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Expressing the Bewilderment of the Modern Man through Silence in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days
Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days (1961) clearly portrays a lack of communication among the characters of the play which refers to the condition of modern man.
Basaad Maher Mhayyal, Munthir A. Sabi
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Effect of a Hearer's Politeness on Multimodal Behaviors in Speech
This paper investigates the effect of a hearer's attitude toward a speaker's multimodal behaviors. Twenty-one university students, nine males and twelve females, participated in this experiment as speakers.
Noriko Suzuki +3 more
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Daily 6: An Approach to Foster Oral Fluency of English as a Foreign Language in Adolescents
This action research study aimed to examine the possible impact of the Daily 6 approach on the oral fluency in English of 13 adolescents. This approach (extension of the existing Daily 5™ framework) introduced a sixth step, “speak to someone”, to respond
Roso Freddy Cadena-Aguilar +2 more
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Virtual Reality Technology and Speech Analysis for People Who Stutter
Virtual reality (VR) technology provides an interactive computer-generated experience that artificially simulates real-life situations by creating a virtual environment that looks real and stimulates the user’s feelings.
Abeer Al-Nafjan +2 more
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In order to make a detailed observation of some variables in reading performance, two third grade (second series in Brazil) children were selected from a group because their performance differed widely in terms of frequency and type of silent pauses and ...
Mariana Hargreaves Araújo +1 more
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Memória de trabalho e produção oral da linguagem
In this paper, we examine the use of silent pauses made by high and low working memory span individuals, during the reading span test (the Brazilian Portuguese version), aiming at verifying possible strategies used by the subjects in order to accommodate
Paula Lenz Costa Lima, Edson Françozo
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Effect of the content complexity on hesitations in adolescents’ narratives
The paper presents analysis of the hesitations in adolescents’ narratives. The speech disfluencies in the adolescents differ from those of the adults by frequency of self-corrections and pauses of hesitation.
Ovchinnikova Irina
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The eye-voice lead during oral reading in developmental dyslexia
In reading aloud, the eye typically leads over voice position. In the present study, eye movements and voice utterances were simultaneously recorded and tracked during the reading of a meaningful text to evaluate the eye-voice lead in 16 dyslexic and 16 ...
Maria eDe Luca +6 more
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The current study investigates self-repairs in the speech of three groups of Russian speakers: monolingual controls (N = 12) residing in the Russian Federation, for whom Russian is their first dominant language (L1); bilingual Russian–Hebrew speaking ...
Natalia Bogdanova-Beglarian +4 more
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Exploring the Discourse of Debriefing Interactions: Areas for Improvement
Debriefing has been widely used as part of simulation-based education (SBE) to promote reflective thinking and prepare students for real clinical practice.
Abeer Mohammad
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