The purpose of the article is to put forward English monologue production assessment criteria verify efficiency devised methodology teaching for future mechanical engineers. In course research, theoretical, empirical, and statistical methods have been used. Various approaches identifying thoroughly analyzed. Seven assess skills, five primary two secondary ones, suggested. allocation points by e...

The article focuses on the peculiarities of teaching speaking in E-learning educational environment, which today is a must for organizing process high quality. material to analyze based on-line part course "Foreign language practice (English)", worked out students Bachelor’s Program "Pedagogical Education (double major) and Second Foreign " (5 years, full time) Kazan Federal University. status ...

The present study reports a large, cross-sectional of Mandarin-speaking children’s ability to compute quantity implicatures. To chart the developmental trajectory this pragmatic ability, we tested 225 children aged 4–8 years on their interpretations scalar and non-scalar implicatures, as well numerals. Scalar implicatures were difficult did not observe consistent success until age 6. In contras...

When a speaker talks, the visible consequences of what they are saying can be seen. Listeners are influenced by this visible speech both in a noisy listening environment and even when auditory speech can easily be heard. While visible influence on heard speech has been reported to increase from early to late childhood, little is known about the mechanism that underlies this developmental trend....

PURPOSE To examine when and how socially conditioned distinct speaking styles emerge in typically developing preschool children's speech. METHOD Thirty preschool children, ages 3, 4, and 5 years old, produced target monosyllabic words with monophthongal vowels in different social-functional contexts designed to elicit clear and casual speaking styles. Thirty adult listeners were used to asses...