This study addressed the development of and the relationship between foundational metalinguistic skills and word reading skills in Arabic. It compared Arabic-speaking children’s phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness, and voweled and unvoweled word reading skills in spoken and standard language varieties separately in children across five grade levels from childhood to adolescence...

BACKGROUND The Digital Speech Aid (DSA) is a pocket-sized device used for speech correction in stutterers. The device modifies the patient's auditory feedback with the use of Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) and Frequency-shifted Auditory Feedback (FAF). Both methods are well-known to improve speech fluency in stuttering persons. The aim of this study was to assess immediate disfluency reduction...

“Soliloquizing” refers to the self-talk practice of a language learner through verbalizing thoughts using their target language. Through years research, scholars have maintained that soliloquizing has potential promote learners’ oral fluency in unscripted speech; nevertheless, empirical validation yet be confirmed. The aims current study were two-fold: (1) empirically establish pedagogical effi...

The current study aimed to investigate the common factors affecting speaking fluency of grade 12 English-language students studying in upper secondary school. participants were composed 100 and 10 government teachers English, teaching 12. In collecting data, two different groups asked fill questionnaires with close-ended questions. obtained data quantitatively analysed SPSS, descriptive statist...

This study of the determinants of earnings among adult foreign-born men using the 1990 Census of Population focuses on the effects of the respondent's own English language skills, the effects of living in a linguistic enclave, and the stage of the business cycle at entry into the U.S. labor market. The analysis demonstrates the importance of English language fluency among the foreign born from ...

Speaking is productive skill that use of utterance as the way to do communication and express meaning with other people. Moreover, speaking English can be a bridge communicate foreigner. The writer wants investigate what difficulties faced by students in factors influence ability. This research was descriptive qualitative research. It involved 25 state junior high school Indonesia participants ...

Currently, Communicative Language Teaching has been popular around the world and has a profound effect on second language acquisition since the 1970s. For Communicative Language Teaching to be successful, there is a need for appropriate teaching materials. This paper analyzes speaking tasks in Chinese and Swedish textbooks for grade 8,Go for it and Magic. The analysis presents content analysis,...

The main goal of this research is to develop learning method which can improve the speaking skills students at Management Program by implementing video recording tasks. This Research and Development (RD) employing ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) Model. respondents in study were 30 who took part English I subject Program. instruments used evaluation sheet, quest...