Academic writing is not just about presenting a set of ideas, but through the act of writing, the authors position themselves as individuals having particular identities which mostly reflect the dominant sociocultural values and practices of the discourse communities in which they are living and performing. The present study, using a mixed method approach, attempted to explore the evidences of ...

evaluation of voice quality parameters of esophageal speech in different neoglottis forms after total laryngectomy. methods: presentation of voice analysis of 20 patients, who underwent total laryngectomy. the success of acquiring this technique was estimated by means of a voice analyzing program (pitch, sound-holding, loudness, spectrogram), and by the intelligibility via the telephone. shape ...

employee voice, due to its role in improving the employees' and organizations' performance, has attracted the attention of researchers and managers in recent years. this study aims at developing an employee voice scale customized to iran's context and also evaluating the influence of employee voice on employees' performance and creativity through the mediating role of job en...

The present study explored the intensity level of authorial voice in relation to the quality of argumentative writing. 42 undergraduate learners of English as a foreign language (36 girls and 6 boys) spent 45 minutes to individually complete in-class position-taking writing tasks for three weeks. Their overall academic writing quality scores assigned based on portfolio assessment were studied i...

A salient characteristic of English spoken by native Japanese is th tendency to produce intrusive vowels between consonants or following wordnal consonants (e.g., English \stress" as /su.to.re.su/). This study conducted speech analysis of a large set of Japanese-accented English utterances to evaluate the e ects of various factors on vowel epenthesis. Results reveal e ects of speaking rate and ...