A lot of EFL students feel unconfident in performing their English-speaking performance and do not have a decent engagement self-reflection speaking development. Self-assessment is one the assessment techniques that requires students’ participation its process. The study was conducted to explore whether implementation self-assessment results significant difference performance. researcher quanti...

The aims of this study are to investigate the use non-verbal communication in students’ speaking class and describe reasons at English Department, University Kuningan. participants were three selected students education department who took public subject fourth semester. employed a qualitative research through plying case design. To gain data needed, two techniques employed; observation intervi...

Since we cannot exclude that speech recognizers fail sometimes, it is important to examine how users react to recognition errors. In correction situations, speaking style becomes more accentuated to disambiguate the original mistake. We examine the effect of speaking style in such situations on speech recognition performance. Our results indicate that hyperarticulated effects occur in correctio...

of a dissertation at the University of Miami. The current study examined cognitive effects of unilateral subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. Neuropsychological evaluations were conducted at baseline and follow-up. Data was collected from 28 unilateral STN DBS patients (15 English-and 13 Spanish-speaking), and 15 English-speaking matched P...

In this paper we present our recent study on the impact of speaking mode variabilities on speech recognition by surface electromyography (EMG). Surface electromyography captures the electric potentials of the human articulatory muscles, which enables a user to communicate naturally without making any audible sound. Our previous experiments have shown that the EMG signal varies greatly between d...

ML U as a measure of language proficiency A rough solution to the problem of assessing developing proficiency is to consider the development of the so-called mean length of utterance (MLU) for a certain learner, cycle by cycle. This measure, although it has many problems (see below) has often been used to give a very rough idea both of differences in proficiency and of the extent to which acqui...