Fluent

Fluent speech is characterize by smoothness (i.e. lack of interruptions), speaking rate (i.e. not too fast not too slow), prosody (i.e. emotional intonation) and mental effort (i.e. effortless speech) parameters. Dysfluency in speech refer to any disorder in fluency parameters. In fact, all people are dysfluent in approximately 2% of their speech but about 5% of children and 1% of adults are dysfluent in more than 10% of their speech which are categorized as people who stutter. The most used…

The second is Receptive Aphasia, a fluent form of aphasia that at first sounds better, but in the end is actually worse, the person can hear a voice or see a written word but are at a loss as to the meaning of it. They often take language literally and will sound odd in conversation because…

people speaking English because I find the French accent quite beautiful. I grew up surrounded by English, almost my entire family from my mother's side is fluent in English. Because of the vast age gap between my cousins and I, I tend to spend time with their numerous children. I have a 13-year-old nephew who is quite fluent in English, to the point where he could be mistaken for a native speaker. In fact, English is his first language. The reason behind his fluency in English is…

Causal Analysis Growing up with Spanish as my first language, I never thought that Spanish would impact my life with many positive and some negative situations. One positive example is that I am now bilingual and fluent in both English and Spanish and have various opportunities awaiting for me when I graduate college. However, I do not believe that the negativity of some situations will come to an end! Sadly, the negativity is all about, in my opinion, ignorant people who say, “This is America.…

Nowadays, life taking place in an intercultural world. Each country depends on another one. Isn’t not only cereals, or goods that are moving all around the world. In the work place, people have to work with colleagues who live in different continent, and with different cultural back ground. In one hands, when teams consist of people from different cultures working apart from one another in different locations, social distance or a lack of emotional connection can cause miscommunication,…

understand the questions and/or incorrectly write the answers, despite knowing the content. This would lead to students incorrectly being identified as having a disability. If I was to take the test in Hawaiian, I would do terribly because I am not fluent in the language. The same holds true for many students at Ānuenue. Moreover, the school cannot translate the test because doing so could threaten the validity of the test. What is your biggest take away from the experience at Ānuenue? My…

Fluent readers decode rapidly with comprehension. Rich knowledge of words builds fluency, therefore allocating more time to understand what you’re reading. The implementation of vocabulary building exercises along with lessons to specifically speed up decoding promotes fluent readers such at the Word Web activity. Through this activity the children practice multiple meanings of a word…

most of my life has been spent surrounded by hispanic culture. Both of my parents come from hispanic roots, and were unable to fluently speak or understand English. Consequently, as a child, I was not taught nor was I able to practice how to become fluent in English anywhere other than at school. Not being able to speak english posed as an enormous problem for the majority of my social and academic life at school, but despite feeling dismayed, I refused to give up. My mother, born in Nuevo…

The four essential operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and their interaction are primary concepts to be taught at the knowledge level of primary schooling. Getting those four concepts and their interaction allows learners to create their knowledge for numbers and as well as connecting them with everyday life problems. Multiplication and division are presented for the first time in our primary schools from Infant II. According to our National Curriculum, Infant II…

communicating with family, friends and even strangers because being Hispanic most don’t know English or don’t like to speak English. English had become my first language then Spanish because of school. I grew up speaking Spanish at home but it was not fluent at first it was more English with a few Spanish words here and there, today that would be considered Spanglish but it wasn’t even that. When it came to Spanish I was able to understand it and sort of speak it but I was not able to read or…