Many teacher-training universities only adopt a single form (read aloud) and content without pragmatic meaning in English Speech Test. However, some scholars show queries on this issue because they worry about whether bring low validity or not. This essay focuses effects of the written test with And through experiment analysis, it can be seen that when are added, comparatively plays an importan...

BACKGROUND Progress in the treatment of breathlessness at rest or on minimum exertion in patients with cancer requires a practical and valid method of measuring symptoms. A study was undertaken to explore the practicality, repeatability, and sensitivity of reading numbers as a form of exercise test in this group of patients. METHODS Thirty patients with cancer and 30 age matched healthy subje...

This study investigates whether automatic transcription procedures can approximate manual phonetic transcriptions typically delivered with contemporary large speech corpora. We used ten automatic procedures to generate a broad phonetic transcription of well-prepared speech (read-aloud texts) and spontaneous speech (telephone dialogues). The resulting transcriptions were compared to manually ver...

The purpose of this study was to compare Kanji items with Kana ones in terms of the free recall performance, and to investigate the effect of orthography and imagery on memory. Two experiments were conducted in incidental learning paradigm, in which subjects were instructed to read aloud each stimulus item. In Experiment 1, an immediate recall test was used. Number of correct free recall for lo...

This study addresses the issue of the existence of whole-word phonological representations of disyllabic and multisyllabic words in the Chinese mental lexicon. A Cantonese brain-injured dyslexic individual with semantic deficits, YKM, was assessed on his abilities to read aloud and to comprehend disyllabic words containing homographic heterophonous characters, the pronunciation of which can onl...

Do infants understand that intention can be transferred through communication? We answered this question by examining 12-month-olds' looking times in a violation-of-expectation paradigm with two human agents. In familiarization, the non-acting agent spoke, clapped her hands, read aloud a book, or remained silent before the acting agent grasped one (the target) of two objects. During test only t...

Are the processes responsible for reading aloud single well-formed letter strings under contextual control? Despite the widespread contention that the answer to this question is "yes," it has been remarkably difficult to provide a compelling demonstration to that effect. In a speeded naming experiment, skilled readers read aloud exception words (such as PINT) that are atypical in terms of their...

We report progress on a new approach to combatting illiteracy -getting computers to listen to children read aloud. We describe a fully automated prototype coach for oral reading. It displays a story on the screen, listens as a child reads it, and decides whether and how to intervene. We report on pilot experiments with low-reading second graders to test whether these interventions are technical...

According to current theories of reading, the reader's saccades are guided primarily by spaces between words, clearly the most prominent visual feature in most modern texts. This belief was investigated by recording eye movements with unprecedented accuracy and precision while subjects read spaced and unspaced passages both silently and aloud. Modest increases in fixation durations and decrease...