AnEnglish club has many important goals to support the fluency of students in mastering English skills, especially speaking skills. Sometimes, it brings positive and negative drawbacks with some activities provided. The study aimed find out how felt about different types that were hosted by club. Qualitative research approaches utilized this case approach research. participants three who member...

BACKGROUND Increased usage of MedlinePlus by Spanish-speakers was observed after introduction of MedlinePlus in Spanish. This probably reflects increased usage of MEDLINE and PubMed by those with greater fluency in the language in which it is presented; but this has never been demonstrated in English speakers. Evidence that lack of English fluency deters international healthcare personnel from ...

Trait anxiety is thought to be associated with pathological anxiety, and a risk factor for psychiatric disorders. The present study examines the brain mechanisms associated with trait anxiety during the performing of verbal fluency tasks. The aim is to show how trait anxiety modulates executive functions as measured by verbal fluency, and to explore the link between verbal fluency and anxiety d...

It has been well documented that education influences the individual's performance on category fluency tasks but it is still unclear how this effect may differ across the different types of category tasks (i.e., animals, fruits, vegetables and clothing). This study aims (1) to analyze the effect of the level of education on four different types of category fluency tasks among elder Hispanic Ame...

In the context of learning through educational videos, the material chosen for a given topic must not only be relevant but also engaging to the consumer—ensuring better understanding and retention of content. This paper focuses on the speaking style of instructors, which is an important aspect driving student engagement. We present StyleX, a corpus of 450 1-minute video clips featuring 50 instr...

A learner’s language data of speaking, writing, listening, and reading have been compiled for a learner corpus in this study. The language data consist of linguistic output and language processing. Linguistic output refers to data of pronunciation, sentences, listening comprehension rate, and reading comprehension rate. Language processing refers to processing time and learners’ self-judgment o...

Objective The Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) is a cognitive assessment tool used to measure the broad aspects of cognition that are most frequently impaired in patients with schizophrenia. This study aims to develop the normative data of the Chinese version of the BACS among the Mandarin-speaking population. Method This cross-sectional study included 382 healthy partici...

This is an experimental study which aimed at investigating the ralationsship between working memory capacity and measures of L2 speech performance in a picture description task. The main assumption underlying the present study was that L2 speaking is a complex cognitive task which is carried out within the constraints of a limited-capacity system, namely, working memory. In this system, there a...

In this paper we explore a learning-based approach to the problem of predicting language impairment in children. We analyzed spontaneous narratives of children and extracted features measuring different aspects of language including morphology, speech fluency, language productivity and vocabulary. Then, we evaluated a learning-based approach and compared its predictive accuracy against a method...

This study aims to improve speaking skills in second semester students of the English education program by using youtube videos. The method used this research is descriptive qualitative. subjects are Education Study Program for 2021/2022 academic year. Data collection techniques were observation, interviews, tests, and documentation. Aspects assessment divided into five aspects, namely Fluency,...