Reading is an important part of learning. No one can deny its importance. The importance reading aloud strategies has increased. are very important, especially for low proficiency students and those who use the English language as a second language. It vital at national international levels. This study examines effectiveness read-aloud on secondary school level in Multan city. was conducted hig...

This paper introduces the construction, the implementation, and the evaluation of an automated scoring system for readaloud speech of L2 learners’. In this system, evaluation scores given by trained human raters are predicted, based on the speech characteristics of learners in read-aloud speech.

We investigate the relationship between prosodic phrase boundaries in terms of pausing and the linguistic structure on morpho-syntactic and discourse levels in spontaneous dialogues as well as in read aloud speech in Swedish. Both the speakers’ production and the listeners’ perception of pausing are considered and mapped to the linguistic structure.

INTRODUCTION Think aloud protocol has rarely been used as a method of data collection in community pharmacies. PURPOSE The aim of the report is to describe how think aloud protocols were used to identify issues that arise when using e-prescribing technology in pharmacies. In this paper, we report on the benefits and challenges of using think aloud protocols in pharmacies to examine the use of...

This article reviews our understanding of reading disorders in children and relates it to current proposals for their classification in DSM-5. There are two different, commonly occurring, forms of reading disorder in children which arise from different underlying language difficulties. Dyslexia (as defined in DSM-5), or decoding difficulty, refers to children who have difficulty in mastering th...

Unlike audio recording devices, a human speaker imitating a heard utterance or reading a sentence aloud must formulate a cognitive representation of the linguistic object to guide the phonology and phonetics of the spoken output. The current study used two different production tasks to explore the prosodic aspect of these representations: an imitation experiment in which speakers heard and then...

The automatic evaluation of children’s reading performance by detecting and analyzing errors and disfluencies in speech is an important tool to build automatic reading tutors and to complement the current method of manual evaluations of overall reading ability in schools. A large amount of speech from children reading aloud plentiful in errors and disfluencies is needed to train acoustic, disfl...

This preliminary study aims to reveal both common and language-specific phonetic differences between read and spontaneous speech in three typologically unrelated languages – Russian, Finnish, and Dutch. These languages differ in prosody, sound systems, speech styles, and means for conveying intonational meaning. Spontaneous speech was recorded from 5 to 8 speakers in each language. Transliterat...