The availability of the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) Discourse Treebank has spurred substantial research into discourse analysis of written texts; however, limited research has been conducted to date on RST annotation and parsing of spoken language, in particular, nonnative spontaneous speech. Considering that the measurement of discourse coherence is typically a key metric in human scorin...

Desire has been a marginal topic in TESOL. This study investigated whether and to what extent English learning affects Taiwanese young females’ aspiration toward western males. Four hundred ninety-nine respondents filled out a questionnaire that investigates their English learning experience and aspiration to cross–culture marriage with western males. Sixteen were interviewed. Results showed co...

Previous studies have demonstrated the negative impact of adverse signal-to-noise-ratios on non-native English-speaking listeners' performance on speech recognition using recall tasks, as well as implied that comprehension skills were more impaired than recognition skills under reverberation and noise. The authors have themselves previously conducted a pilot study on three native and three non-...

Most massive open online courses (MOOCs) are offered in English, including those by non-English speaking universities. The study investigated an identified English language dementia MOOC’s accessibility and effectiveness improving the knowledge of non-native speaker participants. A total 6,389 enrolees (age range 18–82 years; 88.4% female) from 67 countries was included analyses. Dementia measu...

Abstract: This article describes the English listening problems faced by students in senior high school Pematangsiantar. Specifically, it reveals (1) students' skills, (2) they face to English, and (3) how teacher solves problem. uses a qualitative descriptive method is carried out Pematangsiantar, North Sumatra. subject of this through purposive sampling technique. The data was obtained series...

The rapid spread of English medium instruction (EMI) across the globe has led to a growing number non-native lecturers teaching in student populations that are increasingly international. aim present study was investigate what extent with slight or moderate Dutch accents native British evaluated differently terms intelligibility, comprehensibility and attitudinal impressions by English-speaking...

Listeners posses a remarkable ability to attend to one of two speakers speaking at the same time (simultaneous speakers). The present research studied the role of speech rhythm involved in this process. In two experiments with the Coordinate Measure Response Corpus, listeners were asked to attend to one of two simultaneous speakers. In Experiment I native and French accented speakers of English...