It is well established that accent can have a detrimental effect on the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. While accents are usually classified in terms of a speaker’s mother tongue, it remains to be determined if and when this linguistic classification is appropriate for the development of ASR technology. This study focuses on South African English as produced by mother...

The study is designed to examine the influence of mother tongue on Students performance in English language in Junior School Certificate Examination. The study investigated if mother tongue is solely the cause of the students’ woeful performance in English Language in Junior School certificate Examination or if there are other complementing factors. The subjects for the study were one hundred m...

At present, there are few eye movement studies on Bilingual Reading of ethnic minorities. This paper combs the Tibetan, Mongolian, and Uygur reading mother tongue Chinese, puts forward future research ideas: To investigate reverse Chinese texts by native speakers, perceptual span Mongolian primary school students.

This paper reports the phoneme repertoires and phonological error patterns of 600 Chinese-speaking children aged 2;0 to 7;0. The findings support the hypotheses that phonological acquisition is influenced by the ambient language and the mother tongue.

Language transfer shows close relevance to second language acquisition. Despite the passage of nearly a century, discussion on and role mother tongue never ceased. This paper reviews background research development transfer. It also analysis transferability its characteristics. Finally, this makes it clear implications for teaching.

In 2009 the Philippines introduced a mother tongue-based multilingual education language policy requiring “mother tongue” as of instruction (LOI) in kindergarten through grade 3. Using teacher classroom data collected from four LOI groups 2019, we compared frequency teachers’ use target different contexts, including urban versus rural classrooms, classrooms with relatively homogeneous student b...

The position taken in this paper is that the development of a society depends on status, role and importance educational system, education has significant impact personality formation. aim to establish condition primary school for members national minorities and, based this, enable getting better insight into steps be order remove regulatory practical shortcomings. Three models languages have b...

background: since the earliest days of medicine, the tongue has been considered a good reflection of systemic disease. hip­pocrates, galen and others considered the tongue to be barometer of health. in addition, the early diagnose of tongue le­sions help to recognize the some systemic diseases. the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of different mor­phological variations (anom...

This paper deals with perceptual identification and differentiation of five Romance languages, namely French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian. Previous studies have investigated human capability to identify spoken samples in unknown languages after a relatively brief exposure. Moreover, they have shown that subjects use perceptual categories and adapt foreign categories to their own c...

We developed a dialogue-based tutoring system for teaching English to Japanese students and plan to transfer the current software tutoring agent into an embodied robot in the hope that the robot will enrich conversation by allowing more natural interactions in small group learning situations. To enable smooth communication between an intelligent agent and the user, the agent must have realistic...