This is a self-study guide written to help graduate students and researchers at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, write for publication in English in biomedical and life sciences. Parts may be helpful to other non-native speaking scientists writing in English as well as other novice researchers. Any part may be freely distributed in electronic or print form for non-commercial, educational pur...

The purpose of this study is threefold. First, it aims to discuss the concept native-speakerism in English language teaching and how such an ideology still manifested discriminatory practices between native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) non-native (non-NESTs). Second, seeks explore Moroccan EFL students’ (MEFLSs) attitudes towards NESTs non-NESTs. Finally, endeavours measure teachers’ (MEFL...

This study is a preliminary report on an experiment relating PhonePass SET-10 scores to the scale of level descriptors in the Council of Europe Framework. This scale describes the content and level of second language proficiency from a functional communicative perspective. Speech samples from 121 non-native speakers of English were: (1) scored in SET-10, the automatic test of spoken English, an...

This paper describes the Interactive Systems Laboratories’ automatic lecture transcription system for the Translanguage English Database (TED) corpus, which provides text-hypothesis for the International Workshop on Speech Summarization for Information Extraction and Machine Translation. Furthermore the paper gives a short analysis of speaking style characteristics, in particular addressing nat...

Nonnative speech poses a challenge to speech perception, especially in challenging listening environments. Audiovisual (AV) cues are known to improve native speech perception in noise. The extent to which AV cues benefit nonnative speech perception in noise, however, is much less well-understood. Here, we examined native American English-speaking and native Korean-speaking listeners' perception...

<p style="text-align: justify;">In the Indonesian context, English is considered a local subject and there no mandated curriculum for in elementary schools. Meanwhile, has been compulsory taught at secondary school level. The present study aims to explore barriers teaching experienced by non-native teachers schools policy recommendations. employed qualitative case method. Concerning data ...

This paper describes research on automatic assessment of the pronunciation quality of spontaneous non-native adult speech. Since the speaking content is not known prior to the assessment, a two-stage method is developed to first recognize the speaking content based on non-native speech acoustic properties and then forced-align the recognition results with a reference acoustic model reflecting n...

AIM To describe a less invasive method of providing anesthesia in non-English speaking patients undergoing glaucoma surgery. SETTINGS AND DESIGN Prospective observational study conducted in a tertiary Care Eye Institute, Wills Eye Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA. MATERIALS AND METHODS The blitz anesthesia technique was applied to 15 non-English speaking patients (Vietnamese, Mandarin, Russ...

Information on what kinds of mispronunciation cause the greatest loss in naturalness can be used in guidance to help learners achieve their goals of speaking with good pronunciation. We recorded Japanese words spoken by bilinguals in Tokyo Japanese and in foreign accents (English and Korean) and morphed them together with STRAIGHT emphasizing different acoustic parameters. By using STRAIGHT, we...