<p>Most of the existing high level programming languages havehitherto borrowed their lexical items from human including European and Asian languages. However, there is paucity research information on developed with lexicons an African indigenous language. This explored design implementation language-based language using Yoruba as case study. first over 30 million people in south-west Nige...

Audiovisual devices such as satellite and conventional televisions can offer easy access to authentic programs which are considered to be a rich source of language input for SLA (Second Language Acquisition). The immediacy of various audiovisual programs ensures that language learners’ exposure is up-to-date and embedded in the real world of native speakers. In the same line, in the present pap...

UNLABELLED The present study investigated how well individuals knowledgeable about stuttering are able to make disfluency judgments in clients who speak another language than their own. Fourteen native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese identified and judged stuttering in Dutch speakers and in Portuguese speakers. Fourteen native speakers of Dutch identified and judged stuttering in Brazilian Por...

The intelligibility of speech in noisy environments depends not only on the functionality of listeners' peripheral auditory systems, but also on cognitive factors such as their language learning experience. Previous studies have shown, for example, that normal-hearing listeners attending to a non-native language have more difficulty identifying speech targets in noisy conditions than do native ...

This article explores native speakerism, a chauvinistic ideology, in reference to relevant literature. It first exposes its ideological essence and adverse effects on English language teaching (ELT), then moves deconstruct the speakerist practices concerning teachers, norm, cultural foundation of ELT curriculum, methodology, particularly approaches communicative (CLT) task-based (TBLT). Through...