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English Language Acquisition By Chechen Programme Refugees In Roscommon, Ireland, Liana Rose [Thesis]
English Language Acquisition By Chechen Programme Refugees In Roscommon, Ireland, Liana Rose [Thesis]
Theses
This research explored the acquisition of English by Programme Chechen refugees who arrived in Ireland ten years ago. Very many of them had less than a basic level of English. To meet the language needs of the newly arrived Chechen Programme refugees an intensive English course was set up by the local Vocational Education Committee. However, refugees’ basic needs such as health care, parental care took precedence over language provision. The research found that they were unable to fully participate in and benefit from the course. The process of acquiring English happened to a large extent outside the classroom. This …
Health And Social Care Services For Older Male Adults In Prison: The Identification Of Current Service Provision And Piloting Of An Assessment And Care Planning Model, Kate O'Hara, J. Senior, K. Forsyth, E. Walsh, K. O'Hara, C. Stevenson, A. Hayes, V. Short, R. Webb, D. Challis, S. Fazel, A. Burns, J. Shaw
Health And Social Care Services For Older Male Adults In Prison: The Identification Of Current Service Provision And Piloting Of An Assessment And Care Planning Model, Kate O'Hara, J. Senior, K. Forsyth, E. Walsh, K. O'Hara, C. Stevenson, A. Hayes, V. Short, R. Webb, D. Challis, S. Fazel, A. Burns, J. Shaw
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Background: Older prisoners are the fastest growing subgroup in the English and Welsh prison estate. Existing research highlights that older prisoners have high health and social care needs and that, currently, these needs routinely remain unmet. Objectives: (1) To explore the needs of men entering and leaving prison; (2) to describe current provision of services, including integration between health and social care services; and (3) to develop and pilot an intervention for identifying health and social care needs on reception into prison, ensuring that these are systematically addressed during custody.
Enhancing Listening And Spoken Skills In Spanish Connected Speech For Anglophones, Elena Paz Vizcaya
Enhancing Listening And Spoken Skills In Spanish Connected Speech For Anglophones, Elena Paz Vizcaya
Doctoral
Native speech is directed towards native listeners, not designed for comprehension and analysis by language learners. Speed of delivery, or economy of effort, produces a speech signal to which the native listener can assign the correct words. There are no discrete words in the speech signal itself therefore there is often a linguistic barrier in dealing with the local spoken language.
The creation, development and application of the Dynamic Spanish Speech Corpus (DSSC) facilitated an empirically-based appreciation of speaking speed and prosody as obstacles to intelligibility for learners of Spanish. “Duologues”, natural, relaxed dialogues recorded in such a manner that …
Perception And Acquisition Of Natural Authentic English Speech For Chinese Learners Using Dit's Speech Technologies, Yi Wang
Doctoral
Given that Chinese language learners are greatly influenced by their mother-tongue, which is a tone language rather than an intonation language, learning and coping with authentic English speech seems more difficult than for learners of other languages. The focus of the current research is, on the basis of analysis of the nature of spoken English and spoken Chinese, to help Chinese learners derive benefit from ICT technologies developed by the Technological University Dublin (DIT). The thesis concentrates on investigating the application of speech technologies in bridging the gap between students’ internalised, idealised formulations and natural, authentic English speech. Part of …
The Potential Use Of Slow-Down Technology To Improve Pronounciation Of English For International Communication, Bunny Richardson
The Potential Use Of Slow-Down Technology To Improve Pronounciation Of English For International Communication, Bunny Richardson
Doctoral
The focus of this research is on oral communication between L1 (first language) and L2 (second language) English users - to determine whether an algorithm which slows down speech can increase the intelligibility of speech between interlocutors for EIC (English for International Communication). The slow-down facility is a CALL tool which slows down speech without tonal distortion. It allows English language learners more processing time to hear individual phonemes as produced in the stream of connected speech, to help them hear and produce phonemes more accurately and thus more intelligibly. The study involved five tests, all concerned with the intelligibility …
A Generic Framework For Arabic To English Machine Translation Of Simplex Sentences Using The Role And Reference Grammar Linguistic Model, Yasser Salem
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