The problem of teaching speaking in the adult ESP classroom has not been sufficiently studied Russia, although challenges it poses differ significantly from those that traditional research on pedagogy can address. One these is some Russian students do feel comfortable English front their teacher and classmates, which leads to communication barriers. review literature andragogy, our observations...

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This paper discusses how monolingual children speaking Japanese as their first language interpret the particles, WA and GA, in complex sentences. Previous studies (Nakaiwa et al. 1995, Uchida, at al. 1995, Nariyama 2002) reported adult Japanese-speakers’ tendency of interpreting WA marking as a coreference with the elided subject while GA marking as a different subject. The current study examin...

Abstract:The purpose of this study was to assess influenza preparedness levels among Spanish-speaking adults ages 18 and older in two rural communities in Central California. Data were collected from 209 participants using the 21-item Emergency Preparedness Measurement Scale, an instrument designed and validated for this study. Results suggest that adult Spanish-speaking Latinos are not prepare...

"This paper uses the 1983 Census of Israel to analyze Hebrew speaking skills and the effects of Hebrew fluency on the earnings of adult male immigrants. Hebrew fluency increases with a longer duration in Israel, the presence of children in the household, marrying after immigration, living in an area in which a smaller proportion speak one's mother tongue, a younger age at migration, a higher le...

In order to be efficient communicators, children need to adapt their utterances to the common ground shared between themselves and their conversational partners. One way of doing this is by prosodically highlighting focal information. In this paper we look at one specific prosodic manipulation, namely word duration, asking whether Swedish-speaking children lengthen words to mark focus, as compa...

Very little is known about the language environments of children in the United States in non-English-speaking homes. There is currently no published research that analyzes deaf or hard of hearing children in Spanish-speaking households, although the Colorado Home Intervention Program demographics indicate that these households account for 10 to 15% of the population of children who are deaf or ...

The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of speaking rate variation on aerodynamic and acoustic measures of velopharyngeal (VP) function. Twenty-seven healthy adult speakers (14 males, 13 females) participated in the study. The modified pressure-flow method was used to collect aerodynamic data of /m/ and /p/ segments in the word 'hamper' and the utterances 'Mama made some lemon jam' (...