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Affective learning for effective communication

open access: yesTIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2019
This paper presents an ongoing pedagogical project concerning the role of body and voice work in second language learning, in particular with regards to prosody and its importance for effective communication.
Christopher Mitchell   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

Death, Grief and Collective Care in the Materialist Spirituality of a Forest Preschool

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a time when material reality appears disconnected from the spiritual world and meaning is sought through overconsumption of the Earth's material sphere, this study explores how death and grief are narrated as part of the ‘stories of the land’ that unite the material and spiritual worlds in a forest preschool in southeastern Finland ...
Emma Kurenlahti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pedagogical practices in vocal jazz improvisation. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
There were high levels of agreement regarding which techniques were considered most and least important. However, several differences in satisfaction levels arose, suggesting that perhaps the intention and application of these teaching strategies is not ...
Walker, Cherilee Wadsworth,
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A Music Therapist's Exploration of Vocal Improvisation for Self-Care: A Heuristic Self-Inquiry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Self-care is imperative for helping professionals yet literature indicates that these professionals lack the support and guidance that they need to engage in effective and personally meaningful self-care practices.
La Roche, Pierrette-Anne
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Music and Stroke Rehabilitation: A Narrative Synthesis of the Music-Based Treatments used to Rehabilitate Disorders of Speech and Language following Left-Hemispheric Stroke

open access: yesVoices, 2016
Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability. A stroke can damage areas of the brain associated with communication, resulting in speech and language disorders. Such disorders are frequently acquired impairments from left-hemispheric stroke.
Kevin Draper
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of Two Music Training Approaches on Music and Speech Perception in Cochlear Implant Users

open access: yesTrends in Hearing, 2018
In normal-hearing (NH) adults, long-term music training may benefit music and speech perception, even when listening to spectro-temporally degraded signals as experienced by cochlear implant (CI) users.
Christina D. Fuller   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contemporary Trends of the Interpretation of the Ukrainian Folk-Song Performance Paradigm

open access: yesКультура України, 2018
The aim of this paper is to highlight the features of interpretation of the Ukrainian folk-song performance paradigm in the works of the contemporary performers of the Ukrainian song M. Yurasova, I. Chervinskaya, O. Nikitiuk.
Yu. I. Karchova
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Chinese International Students’ Intercultural Competence in Australian University Classrooms: Challenges and Opportunities

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the increasing number of Chinese international students in Australian universities, intercultural competence has become a critical factor influencing their interactions with Australian tutors in university classroom settings. Existing research often examines students’ intercultural competence from a single‐method or single‐perspective ...
Jiangyu Han, Linda Tsung
wiley   +1 more source

Holistic influence on contemporary jazz vocal improvisation with reference to the works of Gloria Cooper and Kitty Margolis.

open access: yes, 2011
Through the analysis of aspects such as experience, vocal expression, improvisatory techniques and teaching approach of two jazz vocalists from different social, educational and musical backgrounds in the United States of America, the hope is to achieve ...
Bauer, Lisa
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