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Listening Lessons In Connected Speech For Puerto Rican College Students For The Purpose Of Improving Aural Comprehension In English, Margaret F. Tucker

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

The University of Puerto Rico English staff members who are preparing teachers for the Island school system are concerned about the lack of effective training techniques which will develop the student's listening ability and thereby sharpen his comprehension of spoken English. Appropriate listening lessons to improve their understanding of connected speech are needed. The purpose of this study is to investigate the following hypothesis:

That additional materials for listening discrimination are needed for teaching English to Puerto Rican college students, and that paragraph listening lessons will provide varied auditory experience for sound discrimination training in learning English as a second …

A Translation And Analysis Of Portions Of The Russian Text The Art Of Oratory, Edited By A. Tolmachev, Moscow, 1959, Jack H. Butler

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

Ancient and modern authorities on rhetoric agree that the fundamental purpose of oral discourse is social coordination or control. This implies the use of speech as an instrument of communication by which ideas and feelings are conveyed from person to person. Speech, therefore, assumes a primary role in the outcome of history and the peaceful resolution of vital differences.