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Gaillard, Celine. "The Effects of Pre-Speaking Planning on Students' Performance during Speaking Tasks." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4067.

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Research has explored the impact of various planning types (i.e. different ways to help students prepare for a language task by, for instance, giving them time and/or specific instructions) on the fluency, complexity, and accuracy of second language learners (e.g., Ellis, 2009). However, results have been mixed and studies have never investigated the impact of pre-speaking activities such as those proposed by Thompson (2009), a teacher-led planning focusing on both form and content with students. Previous research suggests that this type of planning could benefit students: Foster & Skehan (199

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Mayer, Rebecca F. "Speaking of, Talkin 'bout, Riffing on Tap." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4173.

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This paper examines the dialects of the language that is tap dance. Unlike more codified forms of dance such as ballet, which utilize a universally-accepted technique system, the evolution of tap dance has been largely rooted in oral tradition. During Broadway’s early years, entrepreneurs in the dance training business published manuals and dictionaries on tap, as did several self-styled experts in the 1990s; because many of these books are self-published, referring to them requires educated discrimination. Drawing on my own experience as a dance student, performer, choreographer, and educator

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Smith, Tony Edward. "Keeping it real does practicing speeches before an audience improve performance? /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1058484247.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Speech Communication, 2003.<br>Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 35 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 20-24).

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Glenn, Katy. "Effects of Conversational Modalities on Driving and Speaking Performance." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6294.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the bidirectional effects of simulated driving and conversations using different speaking modalities. Participants included 30 males and 30 females with no history of speech, language or hearing disorders. The participants were divided into three age groups: 20s, 40s, and 60s. They completed a driving simulation task in isolation and also while speaking on a hand-held or hands-free cell phone or with a passenger in the car. Speech measures included speaking time ratio, mean, and standard deviation of intensity, as well as mean and standard deviation of

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Kim, Simon Y. "The Impact of Stereotypes on Public Speaking Performance and Anxiety." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/psych_diss/25.

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Public speaking anxiety is a common experience in both community and clinical populations and can have a negative impact on quality of life. Although contemporary treatments have been found to be effective, there is a lack of cultural relevance in existing theories and treatments. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of stereotypes, a culturally relevant variable, on public speaking performance and anxiety for African Americans and Asian Americans. Participants (N=97) were randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions where they either received feedback that was stereo

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Meyr, Jessica. "Making the grade : self-monitoring and student public speaking performance." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1452.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Sciences<br>Interpersonal and Organizational Communications

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Dervisic, Edvin. "All eyes on me: : Public speaking skills and performance anxiety." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-54769.

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This research investigates how pupils perceive performance anxiety and where this trait may originate. Based on the findings from the interviews, it was factors such as lack of studying technique, expectations of a high grade, and pressure from home as well as classmates that were the main reasons to why their performance anxiety arose from the very beginning. In relation to this, the study aims at discussing how rhetoric as a subject in school may reduce performance anxiety amongst pupils. A qualitative method was used to investigate the research question of this essay. The interviews have be

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Cox, Troy L. "Investigating Prompt Difficulty in an Automatically Scored Speaking Performance Assessment." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3929.

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Speaking assessments for second language learners have traditionally been expensive to administer because of the cost of rating the speech samples. To reduce the cost, many researchers are investigating the potential of using automatic speech recognition (ASR) as a means to score examinee responses to open-ended prompts. This study examined the potential of using ASR timing fluency features to predict speech ratings and the effect of prompt difficulty in that process. A speaking test with ten prompts representing five different intended difficulty levels was administered to 201 subjects. The s

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Buré-Reyes, Annelly. "Neuropsychological test performance of Spanish speakers : is performance similar across different Spanish speaking subgroups? /." Electronic version (PDF), 2006. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2006/burea/annellybure-reyes.html.

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Warhurst, Samantha. "Characteristics of the Supranormal Speaking Voice: Radio Performers." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10000.

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Characteristics of the Supranormal Speaking Voice: Radio Performers Radio performers use their voices to communicate with their audiences and compete in the radio marketplace. This thesis aimed to investigate what makes a good voice for radio. Perspectives on what makes a good voice for radio are likely to vary between radio employers/educators, listeners and clinicians. Therefore, this thesis explored good voice for radio using methods that considered these stakeholder perspectives. Five studies are presented; one using qualitative method and four using quantitative methods. The first study

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Ellison, Renai. "Communication theory vs. performance skills : how do Rowan public speaking professors weave both into class lectures? /." Full text available online, 2007. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.

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Bennet, Emma. "Just joking : speech, performance and ethics." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2017. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/25806.

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Why do people go into rooms to watch other people speak? What is it that is taking place when a performer walks onto a stage, or steps up to a microphone, and, in the silence that has fallen, begins to speak? This thesis considers both the pleasures and the anxieties that attend such public acts of speaking, and responds in particular to the kinds of utterances that announce themselves as in some way 'non-serious'. It takes, as its founding example, comedian Stewart Lee saying, of Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, 'I wish he had died in that crash', before adding, 'it's just a joke ... like

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Wong, On-chi Angela, and 黃安芝. "Tone perception performance of Cantonese-speaking prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B22047967.

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(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of dissertation entitled Tone Perception Performance of Cantonese-speaking Prelingually Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants submitted by Angela On-Chi Wong for the degree of Master of Sciences in Audiology at the University of Hong Kong in May 2000 The present study was a preliminary investigation on the tone perception performance of pre lingually hearing-impaired children with cochlear implant. Seventeen native Cantonese-speaking participants were invited in this research. They have been using the Nucleus multichannel cochlear implant with c

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Wong, On-chi Angela. "Tone perception performance of Cantonese-speaking prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22047967.

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Smith, Tony E. "KEEPING IT “REAL”: DOES PRACTICING SPEECHES BEFORE AN AUDIENCE IMPROVE PERFORMANCE?" Miami University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1058484247.

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Ritchey, Amanda Marie. "THE USE OF VIDEO FEEDBACK AND SELF-MONITORING TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SPEAKING PERFORMANCE." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/966.

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The purpose of this paper was to identify video feedback and self monitoring as a positive teaching strategy for improving the public speaking behavior in a classroom setting. An ABA withdrawal design was utilized with four adolescent, male teenage boys (ages 12-18). During the intervention, participants reviewed videotaped probes of their public speaking behavior and completed the self monitoring form. The results of the current study provided mixed results in that while some participants improved in one or more aspects of their behavior, only two of the four participants improved all aspects

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Finer, Ella Jean. "Her material voice : the vocal female body in performance time and space." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2012. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/her-material-voice(15bf62b4-04db-4f79-b70e-dbb55e7ed4f3).html.

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The research in this thesis (composed of a written element, audio documents and a live performance) focuses on the relationship of the female speaking voice to her own body and others’ bodies within the particular temporality of performance space. Arguing that the female voice can be theorised as a resistant theatre material, which through its volatile nature can escape attempts at control, the work here develops practical strategies and methods for discovering how the voice eludes any easy identification or ownership as part of a feminist agenda. Following Michelle Duncan who writes that ‘voi

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Nessler, Nina. "The Speaking Silence : A qualitative study of how Swedish teachers meet and handle the challenges of speaking anxiety among their students in English language education." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-75965.

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Being able to communicate, interact and speak your mind in our time is considered one of the most essential proficiencies, especially in English which is accepted as a lingua franca. The most frequently used word in the Swedish course syllabuses for English is communication. Although there is an instant occuring communication in a classroom, some students stay silent since they fear to speak, they fear to fail and their way of preventing that from happening is to stay silent. In order to assess students language proficiencies, students must in some way demonstrate and show their knowledge to t

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Koschwitz, Joana. "The effect of speaking style on the performance of a forensic voice comparison system." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-355736.

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Mungal, Kamla. "How do public private partnerships influence business school performance in the English-speaking Caribbean?" Thesis, Aston University, 2012. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/18857/.

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This thesis addresses the question of how business schoolsestablished as public privatepartnerships (PPPs) within a regional university in the English-speaking Caribbean survived for over twenty-one years and achieved legitimacy in their environment. The aim of the study was to examine how public and private sector actors contributed to the evolution of the PPPs. A social network perspective provided a broad relational focus from which to explore the phenomenon and engage disciplinary and middle-rangetheories to develop explanations. Legitimacy theory provided an appropriate performance dimens

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Lewis, Heidi Diane. "Speaking Out of the Dust: Religious Reenactments with the Specific Iconic Identity of Place." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/505.

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Sometimes, the place where a play is performed is as important as or more important than the play itself. The first known theatrical rituals were performed in spaces which came to hold deep religious significance. Many religious traditions regard certain places as sacred because of spiritually significant events which took place there, sometimes involving the presence of Deity. In an effort to build on that sacrality, sometimes religious cultures bring theatre to these spaces, which, in turn, tend to alter the nature of the theatrical event. This seems especially true in regards to theatre whi

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Cummergen, Paul A. "Preaching and other verbal performance in a United Church of Canada congregation: Speaking of experience." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9815.

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This is a study of the ritual of Sunday worship in a United Church of Canada congregation. Its seeks to provide a contextual analysis of the preaching and other verbal performances which are the most significant ritual elements. The work of Pierre Bourdieu is critically assessed. On this basis, an account of preaching as symbolic labour is developed. Samples of preaching collected through participant-observation of the services are analysed to show the ways in which preaching serves to provide a discursive resource for the (re)production of communal individual conceptions of the "self" among m

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Yuen, Fung-chi Erica. "Written picture-naming performance of healthy Cantonese-speaking adults the effects of age and education /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKU Scholors Hub, 2005. http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B38279411.

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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2005.<br>"A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, June 30, 2005." Also available in print.

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Gaythwaite, Edie. "METACOGNITIVE SELF-REGULATION, SELF-EFFICACY FOR LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE, AND CRITICAL THINKING AS PREDICTORS OF ACADEMIC SUCCE." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3459.

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The purpose of the study was to investigate whether metacognitive self-regulation, self-efficacy for learning and performance, and critical thinking could be identified as predictors of student academic success and course retention among community college students enrolled in online, telecourses, and traditional Fundamentals of Speech (public speaking) courses. The study was conducted during the Fall 2005 semester at Valencia Community College (VCC). Data for this study were collected from participating students enrolled in either one of the two online, two telecourse, and two traditional face

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Jaiyote, Suwimol. "The relationship between test-takers' first language, listening proficiency and their performance on paired speaking tests." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/622101.

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This thesis presents a study of the relationship between test-takers’ first language, listening proficiency and their performance on paired speaking tests. Forty participants from two different L1 backgrounds (20 Urdu and 20 Thai) participated in the study. They took two paired speaking tests: one with a shared L1 partner, and one with a non-shared L1 partner, as well as a listening test and a monologic speaking test to measure their listening ability and individual speaking ability. After each paired speaking test, the participants were also interviewed about their test-taking experience. All

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Shin, Somi. "Competence in communication for ESL/EFL speaking curriculum." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1962.

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This project provides a background on English instruction in Korea and features a literature review that builds theoretical aspects of this project. This project also presents a model of communicative competence applied to the speaking process which incorporates the application of speaking strategies.

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Channing, O. Ernestien. "English written proficiency as a contributing factor to academic performance." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65481.

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Internationally English is increasingly being used as a language of instruction in education. This is also true within the South African context, a country with eleven official languages. Many non-native English speaking (NNES) students, for whom English might be their second, third or even fourth language, are studying through the medium of English. Previous studies on this topic acknowledge that the level of English proficiency which NNES students have, affects their academic performance. The problem under investigation in this case study was the relationship between students’ academic perfo

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Lam, Sau-yau. "Case studies of the performance of local form six students in Chinese individual oral presentation Xianggang zhong liu xue sheng ge ren duan jiang biao xian de ge an yan jiu /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31960261.

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Rollins, Ivy E. "Using spelling performance to study literacy acquisition in English for Spanish-speaking students in the seventh grade /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2007. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3277006.

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Zappia, Irene Antonia. "Cognitive performance of English and Spanish speaking Mexican-American children on the WISC-R and EIWN-R." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184315.

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The purpose of this study was to do a comparative analysis of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R), a test of intelligence which is frequently used with Mexican American students, and its Spanish translation the Escala de Inteligencia Wechsler Para Ninos-Revisada (EIWN-R). The WISC-R was administered in English to 109 bilingual English proficient Mexican American students, and the EIWN-R was administered in Spanish to 109 other than English proficient or monolingual Spanish speakers. Language proficiency was determined according to students scores on the Language Asses

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McManus, Clare. "Silenced voices/speaking bodies : female performance and cultural agency in the court of Anne of Denmark (1603-19)." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4220/.

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This study investigates the long-neglected cultural engagement of the court of Anne of Denmark, consort of James VI and I, revising her historiographical representation in the light of current gender theory. Focusing upon the masque performances of the English Jacobean court, I examine the genre's anomalous staging of Renaissance female performance and its contribution to the emergence of a more general female performance. Through detailed analysis of masque performances, I assess contemporary courtly attitudes towards female masquing and the performative representation of the courtly woman. T

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Lee, Young Shik. "Introducing performance-based English writing assessment in Korea : improving the quality of judgements by non-native speaking markers." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283906.

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Van, Tonder Phia. "WISC-IV performance of South African grade 7 English and Xhosa speaking children with advantaged versus disadvantaged education." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003920.

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Research reveals that the level as well as the quality of education plays a role in the determination of an individual's intellectual capacity. Substantial differences in quality of education for black and white individuals were experienced in South Africa due to Apartheid. Compared to the traditionally white Private and Model C schools, Township/ DET schools had limited resources, as well as a separate syllabus and examination system, a situation that has not improved substantially since democratisation in 1994. Research on black South African adults with the WAIS-III has confirmed significan

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Van, der Merwe Adele. "A comparison of WISC-IV test performance for Afrikaans, English and Xhosa speaking South African grade 7 learners." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002585.

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his study builds on South African cross-cultural research which demonstrated the importance of careful stratification of multicultural/multilingual normative samples for quality of education in respect of English and African language (predominantly Xhosa) speaking adults and children tested with the WAIS-III and WISC-IV, respectively. The aim of the present study was to produce an expanded set of preliminary comparative norms on the WISC-IV for white and coloured Afrikaans, white English and black Xhosa speaking Grade 7 children, aged 12 to 13 years, stratified for advantaged versus disadvanta

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Tan, Yen-Lun. "The effects of planning time on Taiwanese college students' performance and strategy use in an integrated speaking task." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702919.

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The amount of planning time and the strategies use in integrated speaking tasks, require test takers to respond to a question by synthetizing information obtained reading and listening prompts, are under-researched, particularly in light of tasks' cognitive complexity. This study investigates planning time effects on the speaking performance of 67 Taiwanese college students and their strategy use when performing an integrated speaking task from the Test of English as a Foreign Language internet-based test (TOEFL iBT). A mixed methods research design was employed where students' performance und

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Niolaki, Georgia. "Processes involved in spelling in bilingual and monolingual English- and Greek-speaking children with typical and atypical spelling performance." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10018344/.

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Studies carried out investigated predictors of spelling and reading in monolingual and bilingual Greek and English school children attending Years 2 to 6. Studies 1, 2 and 3 investigated underlying factors in spelling of typically developing children, monolingual and bilingual. The findings of Study 1 support the notion that spelling is a multifaceted process integrating phonological, morphological, semantic and orthographic skill (Frith 1980). The aim in Study 2 was to narrow the focus on the variables found to be most strongly associated with lexical and sublexical processes for spelling and

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Bickell, Alexa. "WISC-IV test performance of grade 3 Xhosa-speaking children : an extension of a prior South African normative database." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/5730.

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Introduction. A well-recognized problem exists when commonly employed tests developed in the United States (US) or United Kingdom (UK) are accepted unconditionally for use on local relatively disadvantaged populations, as these tests have questionable validity and therefore incur a high risk of misdiagnosis. Cross-cultural normative research has been conducted in South Africa on some of the Wechsler intelligence scales with respect to participants stratified for level and quality of education, age, race and language, including a study on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – Fourth Ed

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Makondo, D. "The effects of language of instruction on the performance of the Tsonga (Shangani) speaking Grade seven pupils in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/880.

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Thesis (Ph.D. (Educational Psychology)) --University of Limpopo, 2012<br>This research project was an endeavor to investigate the effects of the languages of instruction (English and Shona), to teach Tsonga (Shangani) speaking children in Chiredzi district of Zimbabwe. Because of the nature of the study, a mixed method design was used where both qualitative and quantitative methods were adopted to study the performance of the Tsonga (Shangani) minority language speaking learners in five purposively sampled schools. 222 learners participated in the study. The main aim of the study was

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Chan, Chung-yan Jenny. "Comparing the effects of semantic cueing and orthographic cueing on naming performance of Cantonese-speaking aphasic adults with naming difficulties." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3620772X.

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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2001.<br>"A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences). The University of Hong Kong, May 4, 2001." Also available in print.

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Elliott, Rachelle Anne. "Ég tala ekki íslensku: Exploring the performance of Icelandic mixed-voice choral music for non-Icelandic speaking conductors and singers." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29552.

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Icelandic mixed-voice choral singing has a short history compared to other Western European countries as singing in more than two voice parts was not commonplace until the twentieth century. Traditional Icelandic vocal music is most closely aligned with the song traditions of Norway and the Faroe Islands, although each has evolved differently resulting in a specialised, and some say, unique Icelandic mixed-voice choral sound within the Nordic countries. The key factors that have shaped Iceland’s choral music include the integration of distinctly identifiable musical characteristics from Icelan

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Khabbazbashi, Nahal. "An investigation into the effects of topic and background knowledge of topic on second language speaking performance assessment in language proficiency interviews." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:359c8956-4561-43a8-a7ae-eba1e0dab51c.

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This study explores, from a test validity perspective, the extent to which the two variables of topic and background knowledge of topic have an effect on spoken performance in language proficiency interviews. It is argued that in assessment contexts where topics are randomly assigned to test takers, it is necessary to demonstrate that topics of tasks and the level of background knowledge that test takers brings to these topics do not exert an undue influence on test results. Otherwise, a validity threat may be introduced to the test. Data were collected from 82 Farsi speakers of English who pe

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Saiki, Michiko. "The Vocalizing Pianist: Embodying Gendered Performance." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1493714783458806.

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Runciman, Carey Lynn. "A comparative study of the performance of English and Xhosa speaking children on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R)." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007467.

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The purpose of this study was to compare the WISC-R subtest score scatter patterns and obtain preliminary normative data on the WISC-R Adjunctive tests (Digit Span Forward; Digit Span Backward; Digit Supraspan; Coding Immediate Recall and Coding Delayed Recall) on a non-clinical population of South African English (n= 15) and Xhosa (n= 12) speaking, standard six children, studying in English medium schools. Tests were administered to 27 subjects, both male (n=19) and female (n=8), with a mean age of 14.1 years (range = 13.3-15.3). The results show that White English speaking children outperfor

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Rogland, Harutunian Erik. "Overcoming Speech Anxiety in the Classroom." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-30539.

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Speech anxiety is an issue that persists and presents itself innumerably in schools, especially affecting students who learning English either as their second language or as a foreign language. Speaking anxiety may stem from different sources and affect each individual student differently. The research question that is key to this research is “How can teachers support students who are struggling with speech anxiety?”The research for this thesis has been done through the use a qualitative interview with two secondary school teachers in Lund. The interview was structured after a semi-structured

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Lam, Sau-yau, and 林守柔. "Case studies of the performance of local form six students in Chinese individual oral presentation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31960261.

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O'Donoghue, Elizabeth Lindsay. "An exploration into self-extending systems in early literacy in English of Grade One isiXhosa speaking learners." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003414.

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The purpose of this research was to explore the ways in which a small, purposefully sampled group of Grade One isiXhosa-speaking children began the process of becoming literate in English as their second language. The research looked specifically for evidence of strategic behaviours in reading and writing which, according to Clay (200 I, 2005), form the foundation for self-extending systems and have the potential to accelerate learning. The research was guided by the principles of Clay's early intervention Reading and Writing Recovery. By Clay's definition, self-extending systems are literacy

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Jansson, Elin. "No, it is more often those with a high performance level, and good English knowledge, who experience anxiety : A qualitative study of teachers’ experiences of speaking anxiety in Swedish upper secondary school." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-72847.

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The aim of the present study was to explore teachers’ experiences of student anxiety in the subject of English in Swedish upper secondary schools. Five teachers were interviewed to find out about their experiences of what causes anxiety in their students and what strategies they have found work best in order to decrease speaking anxiety. The results showed that the anxious students are usually those with a high performance level and good English knowledge. All participants agreed that the reason for anxiety is that performing in speech is perceived as embarrassing. Students tend to see all spe

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HUANG, PING-PEI, and 黃平佩. "The Effect of Online English Speaking Training Lessons on Speaking Performance and Speaking Anxiety of Eighth Graders." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vbxy6t.

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碩士<br>東海大學<br>教育研究所在職專班<br>105<br>The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of online English speaking training lessons on speaking performance and speaking anxiety of the eighth graders. A quasi-experimental study was conducted. Two classes of twenty-eight 8th graders participated in the study. One class of 26 students were assigned as the experimental group, which received online English speaking training lessons. One class of 24 students were assigned as the control group, which received pair practice. The experimental instruction was given once a week, with each meeting 45 minut

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"Scoring L2 Chinese speaking performance: linking scores to candidate performance." 2012. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5549604.

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本博士論文主旨為在漢語作為第二語言（以下簡稱“漢語“）的口語表現評分中連接分數與考生表現。為此，本文設計了三個相互關聯的研究，即：研究一、研究二以及研究三。研究一採用傳統評分法獲取傳統分數，研究二設計自信評分法獲得自信分數，研究三則將傳統評分法與自信評分法進行比較。<br>研究一檢驗了傳統分數與考生表現之間的關係。基於代表漢語口語構念四大維度的七個特徵，研究一分析了66個考生在一次漢語口語測試中的表現（每個考生9分鐘），並採用了相關分析和標準多元回歸作進一步分析。結果表明：第一，七個特徵中的每一個特徵都與傳統分數顯著相關，呈現高等或中等效應量。第二，79%和77%的分數差異可以被兩個回歸分析中相應的特徵所解釋。因此，研究一提供了連接分數與考生表現的實證證據，進而驗證了漢語口語能力評估中的效度問題。<br>然而，研究一採用傳統評分法連接分數與考生表現時，還發現了兩個問題：相鄰等級界限模糊和維度之間的交迭。為解決這兩個問題，研究二提出了一種新的評分方法：自信評分法。然而，自信評分法卻在兩個相鄰等級和三個維度上產生了眾多原始自信分數。這些原始自信分數須轉換成一個準確的自信分數便於分數解釋和使用。為此，研究二採用了隸屬度函數和推理規則，並設計了自信評分演算法。隨後，研究二對自信評分進行了試驗，並對傳統評分法和自信評分法進行了初步比較。分數可靠性和關鍵資訊點相關係數結果表明，與傳統評分法相比

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Yu-Ting, Liang, and 梁郁婷. "Effects of Oral Reading Model on Speaking Performance." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55917758750268999224.

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碩士<br>國立雲林科技大學<br>應用外語系<br>103<br>This pilot study explored the influence of Oral Reading Model (ORM) on college students’ speaking performance in activities, such as retelling and giving unprepared talks. The participants were Taiwanese EFL students in a university of science and technology. The purpose of the research was to examine whether the participants’ speaking performance would improve with the help of ORM through the practice of repeated oral reading. Their speaking performance was then evaluated by a set of simulated IELTS speaking test. The results revealed that ORM positively infl

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