The purpose of this study is to assess the relation between the speaking space of the /s/ sound and the freeway space in two subject groups. One group had natural dentition (Group I, n = 61) and the other comprised complete denture wearers (Group II, n = 33). The analysis was done by means of a jaw-tracking device (K6-I Diagnostic System, Myotronics Research Inc., Seattle, WA, USA). Freeway spa...

The ATAROS project aims to identify acoustic signals of stance-taking in order to inform the development of automatic stance recognition in natural speech. Due to the typically low frequency of stance-taking in existing corpora that have been used to investigate related phenomena such as subjectivity, we are creating an audio corpus of unscripted conversations between dyads as they complete col...

Performing speaking tasks via online learning can be challenging for first-year university students. This quantitative study explored the students' perceptions of experiences, challenges, and strategies in implementing English activities. 127 out 315 students responded to questionnaire, which involved asking information on backgrounds, platforms, adoption difficulties learning. The findings rev...

We focused the present analysis on blood-oxygen-level-dependent responses evoked in four architectonic subdivisions of human posterior parietal operculum (PO) during two groups of tasks involving either vibrotactile stimulation or rubbing different surfaces against the right index finger pad. Activity localized in previously defined parietal opercular subdivisions, OP 1-4, was co-registered to ...

This article examines (1) the role of scaffolding and (2) patterns that emerged in L2 learners’ dialogic reflections on their spoken performances. Dialogic reflection has recently become a vital concept teacher development studies (Mann & Walsh, 2017), however, learner empowerment not been investigated. In this study, term “dialogic reflection” is used to define 24 tertiary level perfor...