BACKGROUND Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits federal funds recipients from providing care to limited English proficiency (LEP) persons more limited in scope or lower in quality than care provided to others. In 1999, the California Department of Mental Health implemented a "threshold language access policy" to meet its Title VI obligations. Under this policy, Medi-Cal agencies must...

The study focused on the comparative correlative Test Rubrics Used as Benchmarks in Assessing International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and of a Foreign (TOEFL) Speaking Skills. To carry out this project, researcher searched for IELTS TOEFL candidates recruited finally selected 37 male female who took both standard tests various reasons. statistical results obtained (mainly Pearson&...

listening skill and speaking skill, according language didactics, have close interaction in lingual communications. therefore, measuring listening comprehension without considering other language skills seems to be difficult. the present study is an effort to compare the effectiveness of oral and written multiple-choice listening tests for persian language learners. in fact, this study answers ...

I-vector based recognition is a well-established technique in state-of-the-art speaker and language recognition but its use in dialect and accent classification has received less attention. In this work, we extensively experiment with the spectral feature based i-vector system on Finnish foreign accent recognition task. Parameters of the system are initially tuned with the CallFriend corpus. Th...

This research was to investigate Indonesian teachers’ beliefs about the application of oral corrective feedback in students’ EFL classrooms. It limited given for lexical, phonological, and syntactical errors English conversation class. The participants this were 36 teachers 65 students as a foreign language. utilized both qualitative quantitative approaches, including use close-ended questionna...

The present study investigated the possible relationships between multiple intelligences, critical thinking and language proficiency level of Iranian English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners. The participants of the study included 117 intermediate young - adult EFL learners from ILI language i n- st i tute in Tehran, Iran. The participants were invited to complete MIDAS and Critical thinking ...

Cross-linguistic differences in emotionality of autobiographical memories were examined by eliciting memories of immigration from bilingual speakers. Forty-seven Russian-English bilinguals were asked to recount their immigration experiences in either Russian or English. Bilinguals used more emotion words when describing their immigration experiences in the second language (English) than in the ...

Pre-sessional English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses are meant to prepare international students their undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in an English-speaking academic environment. Prospective university candidates whom is not the first language required complete a pre-sessional EAP course if IELTS score lower than admissions requirements. Even though, terms of requirement, lack p...