Among topics in the field of pragmatics, some seem to be in a more rigorous need of investigation. Pragmatic assessment and specifically the issue of pragmatic rating are among issues which deserve more thorough consideration. The purpose of this study was to examine rater criteria and its consistency and variability in the assessment of Iranian EFL learners’ production of compliments based on ...

Wu Xiaojun (Writer) (Last Name) (First) (Initial) Challenges of Accommodating Non-native English Speaking Instructors’ Teaching and (Title) Native English Speaking Students’ Learning in College, and the Exploration of the Potential Solutions Education Asst. Prof. Jill Stanton May, 2003 82 (Graduate Major) (Research Adviser) (Month/Year) (No.of pages) American Psychological Association (APA) Pub...

Effects of reverberation and noise on speech comprehension by native and non-native English-speaking listeners" (2013). Architectural Engineering-Faculty Publications. 97. 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 sk...

The suprasegmental characteristics of non-native speech are generally described as differing from those of native speech. Recent work has shown that in addition to speaking at overall slower rates, non-native speakers in a reading task are more variable than native speakers in their speaking rate across utterances [1]. However, read speech may contain sources of variability that are specific to...