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Comeau, Liane. "The communicative competence of young French-English bilingual children /." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84497.
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The communicative competence of bilingual children involves a large array of skills---they must not only acquire the full range of communication skills of monolinguals but also learn when, how and with whom to use each language. This dissertation features three studies on the communication skills of bilingual children (French-English bilinguals aged 2.5 and 3 years from the Montreal area). Studies 1 and 2 explored these children's ability to make appropriate language choices by studying their responsiveness to two types of cues: The first study investigated whether children's language choice is influenced by their interlocutor's code-mixing; the second study examined whether children change their language in response to their interlocutor's requests for clarification following the children's use of the inappropriate language. The children demonstrated that they were capable of making on-line adjustments in their language choice in response to both types of cues, thereby showing that sensitivity to cues for language change is part of bilingual children's communicative competence from a young age. Study 3 compared bilingual and monolingual children's responses to requests for clarification following breakdowns in communication due to problematic aspects of their utterances such as speaking too softly or mispronouncing words. The findings revealed no significant differences between the bilingual and monolingual children's responses and suggest that the acquisition of conversational repair skills is not influenced by the simultaneous acquisition of two languages. Together, these three studies contribute to the understanding of the skills underlying children's ability to make appropriate language choices and suggest that the unique demands of bilingual interpersonal communication do not interfere with the acquisition of more general communication skills.
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Leung, Po-ling. "Repair strategies used by Cantonese speaking children with hearing impairment." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36209715.
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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 1998."A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, April 30, 1998." Also available in print.
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Borders-Simmons, Denise G. "Contextual variability and communicative competence : reference and cohesion strategies in narrative discourse by Black working-class children /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1985. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10604078.
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Tsuji, Hiromi. "Developing a communicative mind : a longitudinal study of the development of communicative competence in Japanese children aged from 13-24 months." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020449/.
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There are cultural variations in how young children learn to communicate with others. The development of Japanese children provides evidence of cultural variations and universal aspects in the way young communicative minds develop. Children's communicative competence during their second year was investigated in terms of the expression of communicative intents and joint attentional skills during dyadic interaction with caregivers. Ten children and their mothers interacting in two contexts were observed and video-recorded at monthly intervals. Systematic coding systems identified and coded communicative acts and joint attentional engagements. The analyses were based on the type of communicative acts and their frequencies as well as the total time spent in joint attentional episodes. With the increasing interpretability of children's speech, their communicative repertoire increased, albeit with individual variability in their developmental courses. The common developmental feature was an increase in the repertoire of linguistic expressions in the main communicative exchanges: directing attention, negotiation and discussion. There was also an expansion of conversational topics to non-present referents. Culturally specific communicative behaviours were found in the use of meta-conversational repertoires, both in children and mothers. There was a linear trend for increased time spent in joint attentional episodes. Early joint attentional episodes were dominated by routine play and/or gesture use, both of which involved an element of establishing interactional formats within the dyads. The mothers facilitated the interactions using a wide variety of communicative acts in the discussion domain. They also supported joint attentional engagement. Their interaction with the pre-verbal child showed a significant impact on the child's communicative repertoire in the later stages. Developmental routes to mastery of communication reflect cultural variations in the way people interact. Despite cultural variations, the fundamental process of language learning is that children's experience of early communicative exchanges leads to their accomplishment of "meeting of minds" (Bruner, 1995).
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Ruser, Tilla [Verfasser]. "Communicative Competence in parents of children with autism, Specific Language Impairment and Down Syndrome / Tilla Ruser." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1022911317/34.
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Reynolds, Mary Ruth. "Re-visioning narrative competence: exploring kindergartners' collaborative story construction." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37760.
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This qualitative study explored young children's narrative competence, i.e. sense of story (Martinez, Cheney, & Teale, 1993). It used a combination of videotaping and interviewing to examine multiple perspectives of spontaneous child-constructed stories in the context of classroom sociodramatic play.
Previous research of children's narrative competence was limited to a nearly exclusive focus upon children's individual mastery of skills such as recall and comprehension of adult-selected or elicited stories (Guttman & Frederiksen, 1985; Pellegrini & Galda, 1982; Williamson & Silvern, 1991). This study utilized an alternative approach based upon Vygotskian theory (1967, 1978) to "re-vision" narrative competence as a collaborative social process. Social pretense has been called collaborative when it engages two or more children in complementary, i.e., cooperative, interactions (Howes, 1992; Roskos, 1988).Ph. D.
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Smith, Ashlyn L. "Parental stress and its relation tp parental perceptions of communication following language intervention." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202007-134357/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. MaryAnn Romski, committee chair; Rose A. Sevcik, Lauren B. Adamson, Roger A. Bakeman, committee members. Electronic text (53 p. : ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 17, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-53).
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Koike, Yuko. "Communicative competence through music in EFL for Japanese middle school students." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2564.
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Spaeder, Nancy Joan. "Adolescent communication strategies and patterns in a collaborative task : variations by gender /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3025671.
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Kitamura, Wakana. "Social cognition-based content instruction for communicative competence in Japanese middle school English." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/43.
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This project demonstrates how English teachers in Japan can conduct purposeful and meaningful lessons for middle school low-intermediate students. The teaching approach used for this project is based on Content-Based Instruction (CBI).
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O'Connell, Marijo F. "The effects of presentation modality on learning and memory performance in children with specific learning disabilities in the area of language." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1125089011.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Speech Pathology and Audiology, 2005.Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], vii, 45 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 36-41).
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Aguila, Mary. "Effect of presentation modality on predictions of children's communication ability in the classroom [electronic resource] / by Mary Aguila." University of South Florida, 2002. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000038.
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Professional research project (Au. D.)--University of South Florida, 2002.Title from PDF of title page.
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ABSTRACT: The modified Goodman scale, a hearing loss classification scale, is commonly used to describe audiometric findings for both children and adults (Haggard & Primus, 1999). This scale uses one or two word descriptors for hearing level categories and is based on a pure tone average (PTA), the average of hearing thresholds at 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz. Although these categories were developed from clinical and educational observations (Goodman, 1965), degree of hearing loss has not been shown to reliably predict the educational or language performance of children with hearing impairment (Martin & Clark, 1996). This study was designed to evaluate how the presentation modality (hearing loss simulation vs. using a term to describe the hearing loss using the Goodman scale) affects predictions of children&softsign;s communication difficulties in the classroom by graduate speech-language pathology students.
ABSTRACT: The perceptions of graduate speech-language pathology students were of interest because this population had not been included in earlier investigations, despite the fact that they often work with hearing-impaired children in the school systems. Three levels of hearing loss (mild, moderate, and severe) were introduced using two different presentation conditions. In one condition, a descriptive term from the Goodman scale was used to describe the hearing loss. In the other presentation conditions, a simulated hearing loss was presented to the participants. Following each presentation of each hearing loss, the participants rated the potential communication difficulty a child with that loss may have in the classroom using a questionnaire composed of nine different communication-related tasks (Appendix A).
ABSTRACT: In general, participants predicted significantly greater difficulty when presented with the simulated hearing loss, than when presented with the descriptive term for the same degree of hearing loss with a few exceptions. The results of this study indicated that the standard method of classifying hearing loss results in underestimation of the impact a hearing loss might have for a child.
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Church, Amelia. ""You can't come to my birthday party" : preference organisation in young children's adversative discourse." Monash University, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5155.
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De, la Cruz Rey E. Morreau Lanny E. Lian Ming-Gon John. "The effects of creative drama on the social and oral language skills of children with learning disabilities." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1995. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9604368.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1995.Title from title page screen, viewed April 20, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Lanny Edward Morreau, Ming-Gon John Lian (co-chairs), Frances E. Anderson, Mack L. Bowen, Julie Brinker. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-133) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Reiter, Renee Wanda 1966. "Attitudes toward hearing impaired children: The effect of mode of communication and academic competence." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291893.
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This study examined the effects of academic competence, mode of communication, familiarity with deaf/hard-of-hearing individuals, and knowledge of sign language on hearing children's attitudes toward and acceptance of deaf/hard-of-hearing peers. Fifty-six middle-class third and fourth grade boys viewed a videotape of a hard-of-hearing boy under one of four conditions: (1) using Signed English and competent in math word problems, (2) using Signed English and incompetent in math word problems, (3) using Spoken English and competent in math word problems and (4) using Spoken English and incompetent in math word problems. The results indicated that academic competence was the most influential factor affecting hearing peers' attitude toward and acceptance of deaf /hard-of-hearing children. Hearing children's positive attitudes were also affected by their familiarity with deaf/hard-of-hearing individuals.
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Brown, Kathleen Marjorie. "How Parents of Exceptional Children Describe Their Relationships with Educational Professionals." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29877.
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The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between parents of children with exceptionalities and educational professionals. The guiding question of this study was: How do parents of children with exceptionalities describe their relationships with educational professionals? Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological theory and Crockett's (2002) star model for Special Education Planning provided the framework for this qualitative inquiry. Methods included a content analysis of four decades of journal abstracts depicting the past voices of parents of exceptional children. This historical review spanned articles about the following topics: a child's exceptionality being the result of physical or social heredity; educators as experts who train parents; the involvement of parents sought in certain instances; and, finally, professionals seeking out parental impressions and perspectives of educational practices. Current voices of 14 parents of children with exceptionalities were captured by individual and group interviews, as well as observations at an open parent meeting led by state officials. The constant comparative method was used to analyze the qualitative data. The study found current parental dissatisfaction, mainly concerning their relationships with general education professionals. The study's findings were grouped into four thematic categories: Communication, Caring, Competence, and Continuity. A model of parent-professional relationships depicting these categories was developed to inform both special and regular educators of parents' concerns, and, to assist in the establishment and maintenance of ongoing positive relationships.Ph. D.
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Colero, Brita MaryAnn. "The relationship between child social-emotional competence, child communication competence, and parental stress in a sample of children who are deaf or hard of hearing." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/49940.
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This study examined the relationship between child social-emotional competence, child communication competence, and parental stress level in a sample of parents of children 5-12 who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). A cross-section of parents (N = 53) responded to an online survey. Two main study hypotheses were supported: first, levels of parental stress were negatively correlated with levels of children’s social-emotional competence; second, levels of child communication competence were negatively correlated with the level of parental stress; and child communication competence was positively correlated with child social-emotional competence. Girls were rated as having higher social-emotional competence than boys, F (1, 51) = 7.83, p < .01, ηp² = .13. Parent stress level was not found to be a statistically significant moderator (did not impact the strength of the relationship) between child communication competence and child social-emotional competence ΔR² = .002, ΔF (6, 52) = .151, ns. Child communication competence was shown to account for 12.04% of the variance in child social-emotional competence and parent stress level was shown to account for 17.4% of the variance in child social-emotional competence in the second regression model of the moderation analysis ΔR² = .265, ΔF (5, 47) = 12.30, p < .001, f² = .78. There was a statistically significant indirect effect of parental stress in two mediation models where parent stress level was a possible mediator between child communication competence and child social-emotional competence. The mediation models controlled for (a) the effects of gender and socioeconomic status (B = .50; CI = .15 to 1.12), and (b) functional hearing status and socioeconomic status (B = .44; CI = .11 to 1.00). This study builds on existing literature suggesting that parental stress plays a vital role in child social-emotional development and seeks to understand factors contributing to this relationship in the context of childhood disability.Education, Faculty of
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Kierman, Wynsome Doreen. "A pilot study of the relationship between the English language abilities of a group of primary school children and their tree-drawings." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003587.
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This pilot study attempts to assess the correlation between language ability and a projective Tree-drawing test. The hypothesis tested is that expounded by Sandra Michel, a psychologist working with Dr. A. A. Tomatis at the Language Centre in Paris. The theory of Language from which her work derives is that put forward by A. A. Tomatis in Vers l'écoute humaine (Towards Human Hearing), (1977) and Education and Dyslexia trans . , Louise Guiney, (1972). This hypothesis states that the Tree-drawing can give a clear indication of the kind of dialogue the testee will be able and willing to use. The claims for projective Tree-drawing 'tests' or techniques have been mainly concerned with personality or psychological assessments and sometimes with intelligence testing since Charles Koch first began his work in this field in the early forties. Sandra Michel in "The Tree Test", translated by T . Brown, (unpublished paper), Tomatis Centre (Scarbrough, Ontario, 1980) discusses a Tree-drawing scale that indicates both the developmental level of the child's language ability and his/her motivation towards dialogue and communication at this level. To test this hypothesis a sample of 1094 Tree-drawings was used. The drawings were done by Primary School children of both sexes from Sub. A. to Std . 5, collected over four years of research. These drawings were studied to see if the Tree scale of drawings described by Michel did in fact occur and if they occurred in the sequence she suggests. As a result of these preliminary investigations a developmental scale was devised and proposed as a refinement of Michel's scale. Scores from these two Tree-scales were correlated with English language scores using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and the Spearman Rank techniques. The sample for this correlation study was a group of 54 Std. 5 pupils whose English language ability was evaluated by (i) a school English Examination mark, (ii) a Questionnaire scoring receptive and expressive language behaviours and (iii) Verbal I.Q. scores. The positive correlation between these language scores and the Tree-drawing projective test scores are discussed and the implications for English language teaching and suggestions for further research mentioned.
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Gibbons, Emily Marie. "The Accurate Productions of Emotion Words During a Social Communication Intervention in Children with Language Impairment." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3837.
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This thesis examines a social communication intervention that targets the emotional competence of children with language impairment (LI). Three elementary school-aged children with LI received twenty, 20-minute intervention sessions over four months. Each intervention session involved a combination of activities targeting emotion recognition and emotion inferencing. The emotion-based word productions were counted and analyzed. Categorized words belonged to the emotional categories of happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. The percentage of appropriate usage was calculated to represent how often the participants used each emotion-based word in a semantically correct manner. Emotion word productions that did not match the intended target word were analyzed for valence agreement. Results were variable but two of the participants improved in the percentage of accurate productions in at least one emotional category while one participant did not improve over the intervention. Two of the participants also showed a decrease in the number of valence errors with no notable change in valence errors for the third participant. This suggests that this type of intervention can be effective in improving the use of emotion-based words in children with LI. More research is needed to develop this type of intervention.
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Mitchell, Susan Coll. "A Study of the Correlation between the Articulation Competence Index (ACI) and the Percentage of Words Understood in the Continuous Speech of 4- and 5-year-olds of Varying Phonological Competence." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5166.
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Intelligibility refers to how recognizable a speaker's words are to the listener. Severity, a broader but closely related concept, incorporates intelligibility, disability, and handicap. Many factors influence intelligibility, including speech sound production, voice, and prosody, as well as a number of linguistic and contextual factors. Clinicians and researchers in the field of speechlanguage pathology require accurate measures of intelligibility and severity to assess and describe communicative functioning and to measure change over time. Determining the most accurate and efficient measurement approaches has been the focus of recent attention in the field. This study was a preliminary investigation of the relationship between the Articulation Competence Index (ACI), a severity metric, and the percentage of words understood in continuous speech, the standard measure of intelligibility. Specifically, the study addressed the research question: Is there a significant correlation between the Articulation Competence Index (ACI) and percentage of words understood in samples of continuous speech of 4- and 5-year-olds with varying levels of phonological competence? Subjects were thirty 4- and 5-year-olds from the Portland metropolitan area. Four listeners calculated percentage-of-words scores for each child's 100-word speech sample. These scores were compared to ACI scores calculated by the investigator for each of the samples. The data were analyzed using the Pearson productmoment correlation (Pearson£). A moderately strong correlation (£ = .71 to .81) was found between the ACI and percentage of words understood. Squaring the correlation coefficients resulted in values for £ 2 of .50 to .66, indicating that the ACI accounts for more than half the variability of continuous speech intelligibility.
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Mansfield, Rebecca Cloward. "Outcomes of an Emotion Word Intervention for Children with Social Communication Impairments." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3848.
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Children with social communication disorders have been found to exhibit deficits in emotional intelligence, including the ability to identify emotions attributed to facial expressions. The purpose of this thesis was to examine the efficacy of a social communication intervention program designed to increase the accuracy of emotion based word use in three elementary school-aged participants with social communication disorders. The participants took part in a multiple-baseline, 20-session treatment including story enactment, journaling procedures, and supplementary activities. The story enactment portion of the intervention centered on Mercer Mayer's A Boy, A Dog, and A Frog (1967) wordless picture book series. Participants' emotion word productions were analyzed in six categories (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust) and valence accuracy was determined for all productions. Results proved variable, but each of the three participants demonstrated improvements in accuracy in at least two emotion categories that were not mastered prior to the onset of the intervention. In addition, two of the three participants increased in valence accuracy of emotion word productions between baseline and follow-up measures. Taken as a whole, the results suggest that this particular intervention program was effective in improving competency in select emotion categories for all three participants. Discussions of individual participant outcomes are included, as well as suggestions for further research.
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Eriksson, Brigit. "Bildungsstandards im Bereich der gesprochenen Sprache : eine Untersuchung in der 3., der 6. und der 9. Klasse /." Tübingen Basel Francke, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2778109&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Dixon, Madelane Kate. "Increasing Emotion Word Productions in Children with Language Impairment with a Social Communication Intervention." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5933.
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This thesis examines the efficacy of a social communication intervention in increasing the emotion word productions in school-aged children with language impairment (LI). The study had a multiple baseline single subject design in which 5 children between the ages of 6 and 11 received 20 intervention sessions, each lasting 20 minutes. Intervention activities included reading and discussing children's books, enacting the stories using toys, and journal writing to reflect on experiences in each session. Emotion word productions during intervention sessions were coded for total productions within the categories of happiness, anger, sadness, fear, surprise, and disgust. Productions were also coded for type (spontaneous, in response to a question, cued, or imitated) and valence agreement. The percentage of non-overlapping data (PND) was calculated (measuring the overall percentage of sessions in which the participants produced more emotion words than they did in the baseline session with the most emotion word productions) in order to show efficacy of the intervention for each participant. According to PND calculations, the intervention was generally effective for 3 of the 5 children and was effective in at least one emotion category for each participant. Participants demonstrated no difficulties with valence agreement. Data regarding types of production indicated that the majority of emotion word productions during the intervention were elicited in some way rather than spontaneous. These results suggest that children with LI increased the number of emotion word productions during the intervention, but were still dependent upon the scaffolding provided by the intervention.
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Cornett, Amy Tucker. "Outcomes of a Social Communication Intervention on the Use of Emotion Words." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3095.
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Children with language impairment (LI) have often been identified as having social communication breakdowns. A number of these problems are likely the result of deficits in emotional competence. This thesis examines a social communication intervention designed to target the emotional competence of children with LI. Three elementary school-aged children with LI were recruited to receive twenty, 20-minute intervention sessions over the course of four months. Each intervention session involved a combination of activities targeting emotion recognition and emotion inferencing using story retell, story exploration, story enactment, perspectives charts, journal entries, emotion labeling, and personalization. These activities revolved around Mercer Mayer's A Boy, A Dog, and A Frog (1967) wordless picture book series. These books were used because of their age-appropriate subject matter and clear, simple depictions of character actions and facial expressions. To analyze the effectiveness of this intervention package in improving emotional competence, the number of emotion-based words belonging to the emotional categories of happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust that were produced each session was counted. The percentage of appropriate usage was calculated to represent how often the participants used each emotion-based word in a semantically correct manner. Finally, emotion word productions that did not match the intended target word were analyzed for valence agreement. Results were highly variable but all three participants demonstrated improvements in the percentage of accurate productions in at least one emotional category. Although all three participants usually used words of a positive valence in an appropriate manner, inappropriate uses were also observed. When actual emotion-word productions mismatched the intended emotions, all three participants produced low valence agreement for words of positive valence and high valence agreement for words of negative valence. Further research is warranted but results suggested that this particular social communication intervention was effective in improving the production of specific emotion words by children with LI.
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Agajanian, Tara Elizabeth. "The effects of child protective investigations on families, children, and workers in unsubstantiated cases." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1928.
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The objective of this study was to determine some of the effects of child protective service investigations on families, children and the workers, when the allegations are determined to be unfounded and no abuse and/or neglect is further suspected.
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Haapsamo, H. (Helena). "A follow-up study of children's communicative development:associations to social-emotional and behavioural problems and competences and experienced maternal stress." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2012. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514299629.
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Abstract The aim of this study was to follow 8 to 36- month old children's communicative development and its' associations with social-emotional skills (the Brief Infant Toddler Social-Emotional Assessment, BITSEA) and behavioural problems. This study is the first study using the Finnish version of the BITSEA. A total of 50 children participated in the Oulu region (first phases at year 2006 and 2007). At the age of 8 months (at year 2006, n = 31), child participants were grouped into two conditions: 1) children possibly needing support for deficiencies in communicative and interaction skills and 2) children without noted areas of need of support in communicative and interaction skills. Through random sampling, three groups were formed and included children from both the above mentioned conditions. The groups met fortnightly for five months for a directed song-play session (enrichment intervention). The sample size was increased at year 2007 (n = 19) and follow-up questionnaires were sent to all of the participating families (N = 50) at the child's age of 18, 24 and 36 months. The sample during the year 2007 did not receive any intervention. Results suggest, that the children's communicative and social-emotional development may be linked to each other. Children who scored higher in the assessments in communicative skills were also more successful on assessments measuring social interaction and social-emotional competence. Children with better communication skills demonstrated higher scores after enrichment-intervention. Scores on the BITSEA demonstrated an association with other indicators of children's development employed in the study suggesting the utility of the BITSEA as a follow-up assessment in Finnish sample. Mothers, who rated high maternal stress (measured at the child's age of 8 months) also rated higher levels of social-emotional and behavioural problems in their children, especially when a child was 18 months. This effect appeared to decrease over time. Results indicate the clinical importance of directly measuring not only a child's linguistic and social-emotional development, but also including assessment of a child's immediate environment, such as parents and siblingsTiivistelmä Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli seurata 8-36 kuukauden ikäisten lasten kielellistä kehitystä ja sen yhteyttä sosioemotionaaliseen kehitykseen (Brief Infant Toddler Social-Emotional Assessment, BITSEA-lomake) sekä käyttäytymisen ongelmiin. Tämä oli ensimmäinen tutkimus Suomessa, jossa käytettiin BITSEAn suomenkielistä versiota. Tutkimukseen osallistui 50 perhettä (aloitus vuosina 2006 ja 2007) Oulun alueelta. Kahdeksan kuukauden iässä täytettyjen lomakkeiden perusteella (vuonna 2006, n = 31) lapset luokiteltiin vuorovaikutus- ja kommunikaatiotaitojen mukaan kahteen joukkoon: 1) Vuorovaikutus- ja kommunikaatiotaitojen tukea mahdollisesti tarvitsevat lapset ja 2) Lapset, joilla ei todennäköisesti ollut tuen tarvetta vuorovaikutus- ja kommunikaatiotaidoissa. Satunnaisotannalla muodostettiin kolme pienryhmää (rikastuttamisryhmät), joihin kuului sekä mahdollista tukea tarvitsevia että tukea tarvitsemattomia lapsia. Ryhmät kokoontuivat joka toinen viikko viiden kuukauden ajan ohjattuun laulu-leikkituokioon. Tutkimusta laajennettiin syksyllä 2007 (n = 19) ja kaikille tutkimukseen osallistuneille perheille (N = 50) lähetettiin seurantalomakkeita, jotka vanhempien tuli täyttää lapsen ollessa 18, 24 ja 36 kuukauden ikäinen. Vuoden 2007 otoksen perheille ei tarjottu perheinterventiota. Tutkimuksessa kävi ilmi, että lapset, jotka saivat korkeat pisteet sosioemotionaalista kompetenssia kuvaavissa kartoituksissa, menestyivät paremmin myös vuorovaikutus- ja kommunikaatiotaitoja kuvaavissa arvioinneissa. Lapset, joilla oli jo ennestään korkeammat pisteet vuorovaikutus- ja kommunikaatiotaitoja kuvaavissa lomakkeissa, näyttivät saavan korkeammat pisteet myös intervention jälkeen. Tutkimuksessa tuli esiin, että BITSEA -lomake korreloi hyvin muiden lasten kehityksen seurannassa käytettyjen mittareiden kanssa ja soveltuu siten hyvin tutkimuslomakkeeksi suomalaisessakin aineistossa. Lisäksi äidit, jotka arvioivat stressitasonsa korkealle (lapsen ollessa kahdeksan kuukauden ikäinen), arvioivat myöhemmin myös korkeampia pisteitä lasten sosioemotionaalisten ja käyttäytymisen ongelmien kyselylomakkeissa lapsen ollessa 18 kuukauden ikäinen. Tämä vaikutus kuitenkin väheni lapsen kasvaessa. Tutkimustulokset osoittavat, että perhe- ja neuvolatyössä on lapsen kehityksen kannalta tärkeää huomioida myös hänen kasvuympäristönsä; vanhempien hyvinvointi ja sisarusten määrä vaikuttavat lapsen kielelliseen ja sosioemotionaaliseen kehitykseen
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Ssemakalu, John. "A case study of the implementation of the communicative approach to English second language progress testing in one secondary school in the Alexandria Circuit of the Eastern Cape Department of Education." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002645.
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This study explores the implementation of the communicative approach (CA) to English second language progress testing in an African secondary school which falls under the Eastern Cape Department of Education. The goal of the research is to establish how teachers access, conceptualise, and apply the CA to language testing in their specific working conditions. The report of the findings of the research reveals that teachers' understanding of the CA to testing differs from that of the linguists, curriculum designers, innovators, and syllabus writers. This is caused by a combination of factors including teachers' poor working conditions, the lack of focused pre-service training and effective in-service structures for their empowennent as the agents of innovation, coupled with the poor circulation and a lack of clarity in official documents on the CA to language testing. These constraints made it impossible for teachers to implement the CA to language testing. In order to carry on with their work, however, teachers developed coping strategies by drawing, probably unconsciously, on a mixture of structuralist, sociolinguistic-psycholinguistic, communicative and any other testing practices they may have acquired during their years of service. Although based only on one school, the findings of this study indicate that for fundamental innovations such as the CA to take root, there is a need for the adoption of more dedicated, reflective implementation strategies involving proper planning and monitoring, as well as evaluation and re-evaluation of the entire process. This necessarily slow process must go hand-in-hand with a dedicated pre-service and in-service empowerment program based on consultative communication between innovator and agent; and a persuasive education/re-education approach which will encourage teachers to change their entrenched practices.
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Harty, Michal. "The association between maternal self-efficacy and maternal perception of child language competence." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10052005-090227.
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Longmore, Emilee Anne. "The Effects of a Social Communication Intervention on the Production of Emotion Words for Children with Language Impairment." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6011.
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Many school-age children with a diagnosis of Language Impairment (LI) also have social communication difficulties. Some of these difficulties are related to deficits in emotion understanding. This thesis evaluates the effects of a social communication intervention designed to increase the production of emotion-based words as an indicator of emotional competence. For five elementary school-aged children with LI, the production of emotion-based words was analyzed by first determining the frequency of words produced in preintervention sessions for the following categories: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. Following these measures, the participants received 20 intervention sessions over the course of treatment. Treatment involved the use of narratives to address emotion recognition and inferencing abilities. Individual analyses for each participant, including percent of nonoverlapping data (PND), were conducted for each participant in the categories of anger, fear, and surprise, to determine the effects on the production of emotion-based words during the intervention. The results for each participant and emotion category varied greatly, but each participant demonstrated improvement in the PND for at least one emotion category. These results were promising and underscore the value of social communication intervention for children with LI in the area of emotion understanding.
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Michelino, Denise <1992>. "The intercultural communicative competence." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/8779.
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Questa tesi analizza il ruolo centrale che ha la competenza comunicativa interculturale negli scambi comunicativi. Attraverso l'analisi delle sue diverse componenti si mette in luce il fatto che essa è indispensabile e che possedere solo una buona competenza linguistica, in una lingua, non sia sufficiente per raggiungere una buona comunicazione. Sono mostrati infatti alcuni dei possibili problemi che possono nascere se non si pone sufficiente attenzione alle diversità culturali e quindi ai processi mentali che un individuo possiede, dovuti alla sua cultura. Si spiega anche la rilevanza della comunicazione non verbale con le sue manifestazioni negli scambi comunicativi e il concetto di cultura e il suo legame alla lingua, spiegando che sono interdipendenti l'una dall'altra. Nella seconda parte la tesi include uno studio di caso effettuato in scuola superiore a studenti italiani e stranieri. Si metteranno in luce le diversità culturali e quindi l'incidenza della cultura nel rapporto fra gli individui. Si evidenzierà il fatto che avere valori e modi di rapportarsi diversi possa diventare la causa principale di fraintendimenti e quindi portare a discussioni. Obiettivo di questa tesi è quindi quello di far capire che la cultura è presente in qualsiasi scambio comunicativo e incide su di esso in maniera consistente. Usare un modello di competenza comunicativa interculturale aiuta a generare comportamenti che possano portare a comunicazioni ottimali con gli stranieri.
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Hetherton, Julia Vincent. "The Effects of a Social Communication Intervention on the Correct Production of Emotion Words for Children with Language Impairment." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6778.
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Many school-age children with language impairment (LI) have difficulties with aspects of social and emotional learning. This study was structured to evaluate one aspect of the effectiveness of a social communication intervention, the appropriate production of emotion words. Four school-aged children with LI participated in 20 sessions of story-based intervention targeting understanding and usage of emotion-based words. Emotions targeted included the emotion word categories of happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. Because the knowledge of the emotion word categories varied from child to child, each child had different target words. The percentage of correct production of targeted emotion word categories was tracked, recorded and presented in figure format. The percentage of correct productions provided an estimation of the participants' usage and understanding of emotion-based words from session to session. Percentage of nonoverlapping data (PND) for each participant (subdivided by emotion) was calculated where appropriate as one measure of the effectiveness of the intervention. Although somewhat variable, the data showed that the children did make progress in their use of some of the emotion word categories that they did not understand at baseline. The results of the study present some promising preliminary findings.
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Gunn, Cindy L. "Exploring second language communicative competence." Thesis, University of Bath, 2001. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392066.
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Le, Pichon Emmanuelle. "Ce que les enfants savent de la communication : approche contextuelle de l'hétérogénéité de groupes plurilingues." Thesis, Tours, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOUR2026.
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Pour comprendre le développement de la conscience métacognitive d'enfants plurilingues, il est nécessaire d'examiner quels sont les facteurs qui seraient susceptibles de la développer ou de la freiner. La conscience rnétacognitive est considérée comme un élément essentiel de développement des capacités d'apprentissage. Définie en tant que capacité à planifier et à contrôler les processus réflexifs, une conscience métacognitive accrue est susceptible d'aider l'enfant plurilingue à prendre le contrôle de l'organisation de son propre apprentissage. L'examen de l'influence des facteurs susceptibles de l'améliorer a été conduit à partir d'une approche par les biographies langagières. Les résultats suggèrent que l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère à un âge où l'enfant peut prendre conscience de son apprentissage, est l'un de ces facteurs d'amélioration. Les avantages de l'expérience d'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère sont aussi bien d'ordres sociaux que métacognitifsNowadays children more often come into contact with multiple languages at different ages and in variable contexts. Consequently, they may at times be required to communicate in situations in which they lack sufficient understanding of the language used. Knowing about communication, that is, being aware of the interaction, of the potential obstacles and of different strategies to overcome them, is essential to bring exolingual situations to a successful end. Are there features of language acquisition that affect the development of this facet of metacognitive awareness? ln this thesis a specific aspect of early plurilingualism is examined. Reactions of children who learned a new language at an age and in a context in which they were able to be conscious about their learning are compared to those of children who learned a new language from birth onwards. Results demonstrate that a conscious language learning experience is a relevant factor in the development of metacognitive awareness
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Oliver, Cree 1972. "Lehrwerk facilitation of intercultural communicative competence." Monash University, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5796.
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Carpenter, Hilda Vivian. "Reconceptualizing communication competence high performing coordinated communication competence, HPC3 a three-dimensional view /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3218173.
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Solodovnik, T. O., N. V. Sereda, and O. Petrusheva. "Forming of communicative competence of future managers." Thesis, Ассоциация открытой дипломатии, Грузия, 2018. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/48148.
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Amodeo, Gloria. "Scoring oral communicative competence in second-language classrooms." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0019/MQ52872.pdf.
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Al-Amide, Mustafa. "Digital Games and the Development of Communicative Competence." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-30840.
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The purpose of this paper was to review research within the field of digital games and language learning to explore whether gaming can facilitate communicative competence and foster motivation for language learning. To answer my questions I conducted a research synthesis, compiling a variety of research over the last decade to answer my questions as effectively as possible. Results showed that digital games do in fact facilitate language development and induce motivation. Research also showed that different games provide different opportunities and activities, resulting in some games fostering language competence more than others. For instance, World of Warcraft provided social situations where conversations were erratic, spontaneous, contextual and driven by small events in the game, while The Sims focused more on strategic and creative activities. Additionally, research suggested that digital games motivated learners to develop their L2 language in hope of achieving more goals together within a variety games and game types.
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Bayraktar, Hasan. "A Communicative Competence Perspective On Difficulties In L2 Reading." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606279/index.pdf.
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The primary objective of this study was to investigate the reading difficulties (problems) of Freshman EFL students attending the Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University. The study attempted to integrate notions of strategic, linguistic, discourse and sociolinguistic competence into the construct of reading: a first approximation at integrating and applying a model of reading ability to a model of communicative language ability. To examine the reading difficulties and factors related to EFL reading, the researcher investigated the sub-competencies of reading comprehension in the following areas of Communicative Competence: linguistic, strategic, socio-linguistic and discourse competence. For this purpose, 6 reading quizzes were administered to 29 EFL readers and the results were analyzed by three different reading instructors to explore, from a Communicative Competence perspective, where the difficulties in L2 reading were experienced.
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difficulties frequently originated from discourse competence, followed by sociolinguistic, strategic and linguistic competences, respectively.
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Alsahil, Asma, and Asma Alsahil. "Social Networking Mediated Intercultural Communicative Competence: Affordances and Constraints." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621308.
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In the last few decades, Internet mediated intercultural competence has received a great attention in the field of applied linguistics and foreign language (FL) education especially with the evolution of web 2.0 technologies and social networking sites that facilitate interaction and communication between different cultural communities and individuals. Research in the field of Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) is extremely varied and researchers have focused their attention on various aspects of OIE such as promoting intercultural communicative competence (Belz, 2002; O'Dowd, 2003; Schenker, 2011; Muller Hartman, 2000), facilitating online relationship building (Ware, 2005; Thorne, 2003, Jin & Erben, 2007) and improving writing skills (Ware, 2005; O'Dowd, 2003), developing pragmatic competence (Kinginger & Belz, 2005). Despite the plethora of research in this area, gaps in the literature still exist. First, literature lacks studies on language learners of less commonly taught languages (e.g. Arabic), (Thorne, 2006) and more importantly most of the studies are based on western contexts mainly in Europe and the USA. Second, few studies have explored the potentials of social networking sites on OIE projects in promoting intercultural learning (Aoki, 2009; Jin, 2015). In an effort to fill the gaps in the research, this study links English language learners (Saudis) with Arabic language learners (Americans) to investigate to what extent OIE on Facebook between these two groups of learners contributes to their intercultural communicative competence (ICC), specifically, exploring how and what are the components of Byram's model (ICC) manifested in the OIE project. Furthermore, it examined the affordances of Facebook in the OIE project according to students' use, practice and perception. Informed by a sociocultural framework, this study took a constructivist mixed methods approach to analysis of data from learners' online discourse on Facebook, the researcher's journal and observations, pre-survey, semi-structured interviews, and a questionnaire. Data analysis and interpretation revealed that when students' participation were mutually compatible, the students were able to build meaningful relationships, used a range of various questioning techniques, and engaged in genuine dialogue, OIE has a great potential for developing students' intercultural competence, as many objectives of Byram's ICC model were manifested. Findings also revealed that the project has strengthened Saudi students' cultural identity as they found the space to present their culture and country beyond the stereotypical image that dominates the media. As with regard to Facebook affordances, findings showed that the semiotic design and various semiotic resources of Facebook (e.g. multimodal posts, sharing, notification, friending, semi-automated features, etc.) afford students' engagement in intercultural discussion, students' collaboration, and students' interpersonal relationship building. The study also identified some of Facebook's constraints that limited students' participation due to technological, cultural and social factors. In sum this study illuminates the nature of online intercultural communication between Arabic and English language learners, contributing to the scarce research on this population. It also uncovers the unique affordances as well as constraints of Facebook on an OIE project. Based on this study, several pedagogical implications and suggestions are made for future research in the field of online intercultural exchanges.
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Pople, Jan. "Acquiring communicative competence : a case study of language socialization /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19882452.
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Forghieri, Erika <1988>. "Dyslexia & FL speech production and oral communicative competence." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/9978.
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Il presente lavoro tratta il processo di apprendimento della lingua straniera ponendo particolare attenzione allo sviluppo della competenza orale e di interazione. Un numero sempre maggiore di studenti diagnosticato con un disturbo specifico dell’apprendimento fa capolino nelle aule italiane. Per questo motivo, la tesi presenta il disturbo della dislessia e come questa influenzi l’apprendimento della lingua straniera. In generale la maggior parte degli studenti al termine del loro percorso di studi presentano molte lacune specialmente nel parlato in lingua straniera. Per questo motivo, la tesi si ripropone di fornire maggiore consapevolezza tracciando le coordinate principali di produzione orale, comunicazione, apprendimento della lingua straniera e ipotesi sottostanti la dislessia e relativo impatto sulla produzione orale. Viene offerto inoltre un ventaglio di tecniche e approcci per quegli insegnanti che desiderano insegnare in modo inclusivo. La parte conclusiva del lavoro è dedicata a considerare le opinioni e le percezioni degli studenti DSA intervistati con metodo di ricerca qualitativo sulle tematiche trattate. Nonostante il presente lavoro sia ben lontano dalla pretesa di essere risolutivo o esauriente, è stato realizzato con il fine di equipaggiare l’insegnante con maggiori riflessioni e possibili approcci che tengano conto della necessità di un maggior focus sullo sviluppo della competenza orale in lingua e dei bisogni degli studenti DSA.
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Piotrowska, Maria. "An investigation into the sociolinguistic competence of Hong Kong University students with specific reference to ��making complaints'." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31949186.
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Diaz, Adriana Raquel. "Developing a Languaculture Agenda in Australian Higher Education Language Programs." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365619.
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The last few decades have witnessed profound changes in population mobility, instant international communication and the ever-increasing frequency of intercultural encounters. In response, languages education, as an inherently intercultural activity, has been called upon to equip learners to deal with this new reality, heralding significant changes to the field of language teaching. The most fundamental change is reflected in the underlying goal of language learning, no longer defined primarily in terms of the acquisition of communicative competence (CC) (1972) in a foreign language, but rather, the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) (Byram, 1997). The latter encompasses the skills, knowledge and attitudes that help learners to communicate effectively across languages and cultures and thus to become „interculturally competent speakers‟.
Despite widespread agreement that languages education should lead to the development of interculturally competent speakers, there is lack of agreement about how to achieve such a goal. This discrepancy between expected goals, and teaching approaches and practices in place to achieve them, is reflected in the failure of both theorists (i.e., linguists and applied linguists) and practitioners (i.e., teachers, teacher trainers and curriculum designers) to traverse the theory/practice divide.
This is particularly evident in the Australian higher education (HE) context, where curricular contents and objectives of even experienced university language teachers fail to reflect the broader educational mission in everyday practices. This discrepancy between „ends‟ and „means‟ requires further examination and, above all, the identification of possible avenues that may bridge the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between theory and practice in language and culture pedagogy.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Chan, Man-kuen Sonia. "Communicative intent in children with autism." Click to view E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37090288.
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陳文娟 and Man-kuen Sonia Chan. "Communicative intent in children with autism." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37090288.
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Baumann, Uwe. "Exploring intercultural communicative competence in a distance language learning environment." Thesis, Open University, 2010. http://oro.open.ac.uk/45970/.
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This study explores intercultural communicative competence in a distance language learning programme at the Open University in the UK. The research was based on two cohorts of distance language students of German, one at beginner and one at advanced level. This study uses an approach that combines quantitative and qualitative research methods through the use of questionnaires and in-depth, semi-structured telephone interviews. It was established that the conceptual framework of intercultural communicative competence developed by Byram (1997b) and his collaborators is the most comprehensive and viable framework for this project. There is evidence in the literature that this framework has been used successfully in different contexts (Byram & Morgan, 1994; O’Dowd, 2006; Sercu et al., 2005a). Little research has been conducted on the development of intercultural communicative competence in adults, with the exception of Aarup Jensen et al. (1995). So this project addresses a gap in the research into intercultural communicative competence among adults. Furthermore, it focuses on a programme of language study at a distance, which is another area for which only limited research evidence could be found. The findings of the project, both the quantitative and qualitative aspects, demonstrate that these learners gained knowledge through the study of a prescribed package of course materials, and that there is evidence of the acquisition of intercultural communicative competence of varying degrees, as stipulated in Byram’s conceptual framework. The findings also demonstrate that the framework of intercultural communicative competence would benefit from the addition of a sixth dimension to encapsulate the experiences and diverse backgrounds that specifically adult learners bring to the study of a modern foreign language: experience of life or savoir s’appuyer sur son expérience.
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Goncharenko, Tetyana, Lidia Dyomochka, and Maryna Durnyeva. "Development of future engineers' professional communicative competence at ESP classes." Thesis, European Scientific Platform, 2019. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/43588.
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Dawson, Pamela J. (Pamela Jane). "Improving Communicative Competence: Validation of a Social Skills Training Workshop." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500667/.
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The effectiveness of a social skills training workshop was assessed by comparing the rated competence of participants in an Interpersonal Skills Training Program (a 2-session, 12-hour workshop) to the rated competence of nonparticipants. This comparison was operationalized through a study design of the pre- and posttesting of 12 experimental and 22 control subjects. The assessment instruments used were Spitzberg's Conversational Skills Rating Scale (CSRS) and Curran's Simulated Social Interaction Test (SSIT). Two rating judges were utilized. Results, although modest, are in the expected direction. Measured competence on the CSRS failed to show significant improvement in the rated competence of the experimental group as compared to the rated competence of the control group. However, the SSIT did reveal significant improvement of the rated skill and anxiety of experimental subjects while the control group showed no significant improvement. In addition to assessing the effectiveness of the workshop, this study sought to find a positive correlation of the CSRS instrument to the SSIT instrument. As expected, the CSRS showed a positive correlation to the SSIT.
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Fernandes, Marcia Helena Boëchat Alves. "Communicative competence of prospective teachers of english at brazilian universities." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106219.
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