The basic idea behind the use of 'Learning Styles' is that learners can be categorized into one or more 'styles' (e.g., Visual, Auditory, Converger) and that teaching students according to their style will result in improved learning. This idea has been repeatedly tested and there is currently no evidence to support it. Despite this, belief in the use of Learning Styles appears to be widespread...

Article History The paper received on: 07/07/2014 Accepted after peer-review on: 24/08/2014 Published on: 01/09/2014 Of the four major language skills, speaking is regarded as the most crucial and central one as it enables the learner to establish successful communication in that language, which is often the main aim of learning any foreign language. That is why it forms the focus of att...

Language performance is the output of an individual’s language learning. In specific, speaking may serve as indicator students’ skills. Second graders at a private secondary school, Maqamam Mahmuda, Takengon, Indonesia, had poor proficiency in this skill, particularly English, with median score 34. The inefficient teaching and learning methods were to blame for low achievement. As result, it wa...

This work aims at examining three classes of acoustic correlates of lexical stress in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) in three speaking styles: informal interview, phrase reading and word list reading. In the framework of an international collaboration, a parallel corpus was recorded in the three speaking styles with 10 subjects so far in each one of the following languages: Swedish, English, French,...

Integrating HOTS (high order thinking skill) in EFL classes is one of the interesting and important issues context teaching English to improve students’ creativity make them create their own innovation process learning class. Based on Bloom’s revised taxonomy that educators (teacher or lecturer) are not only encouraged teach four skills language (speaking, reading, writing, listening) writer ju...

This paper aims to enhance the performance of a TTS system by generating various speaking styles. First we describe three speaking styles (Radio News, Political Address and Conversation) and compare the prosodic features found in these authentic styles with the prosody in “neutral” speech uttered by the eLite TTS system ([1]). Differences concern about 20 prosodic characteristics (F0 span, spee...