One challenge for many international teaching assistants (ITAs) is improving their spoken English fluency after arrival in the U.S.A. It may be argued that poor fluency, with its hallmarks of slow speech rate, false starts, and particularly pauses that violate phrasal boundaries, account for the failure of many ITAs to be certified by their institutions to teach undergraduate labs or classes. A...

Poetry is rich in terms of its selectively chosen dictions that have to be read aloud enjoyed. This descriptive qualitative study investigated fourth-semester students' perception on the use poetry teach speaking. Students' perceptions were collected through an archives comprising 75 essay projects about using The result indicated students perceived effective developing six aspects speaking ski...

One focus of early foreign language learning in the primary EFL classroom is development oral skills. Imitative and reproductive speaking activities can provide opportunities for basic competencies fluency. Speaking practice aims at progressing acquisition target helping children to become communicatively competent speakers English. Using management as a basis, this contribution suggests practi...

OBJECTIVE To generate normative data for the phonological and semantic verbal fluency tests (VFT) in Spanish-speaking pediatric populations. METHOD The sample consisted of 4,373 healthy children from nine countries in Latin America (Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Puerto Rico) and Spain. Each participant was administered the VFT as part of a larger neuro...

Self-efficacious children are expected to be more task-focused in challenging achievement situations and consequently have better chances of overcoming learning difficulties than who lower self-efficacy. The present study investigates this presumption with Finnish-speaking first graders struggling reading acquisition ( N = 285). development the children’s fluency, self-efficacy, task avoidance ...

This article presents an approach to the automatic assessment of the oral reading fluency (ORF) of children in Spain who are learning to read English. We compared different acoustic modeling configurations and adaptation methods to determine the most accurate means of estimating reliable children’s oral reading fluency scores using the standard metric of words correct per minute (WCPM). We addr...

Category fluency tasks are an important component of neuropsychological assessment, especially when evaluating for dementia syndromes. The growth in the number of Spanish-speaking elderly in the United States has increased the need for appropriate neuropsychological measures and normative data for this population. This study provides norms for English and Spanish speakers, over the age of 50, o...