Vowel

At some point in time, many people will experience problems with their voice. When speaking, words may sound broken, whispery, strangled or hoarse, and a person may struggle just to sound normal. In most cases, these vocal problems eventually go away, but if they don’t, then this condition may be a neurological disorder known as spasmodic dysphonia. Definition and Facts Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder that can affect the entire body or a specific body part. The primary…

Reading and writing is an important aspect of learning, but in order to obtain these skills, you must first need to learn to comprehend the language. This all starts with your auditory system. You start listening to everything as an infant. I would start to sound out and imitate certain words I heard to slowly understand what that means. Visual learning also plays an important role. Children start watching the television and start picking things up in certain learning programs. Personally, I…

Word Analysis Assessments Language and word analysis assessments are important tools that educators use to help identify deficits of English language skills in ELL students. Once ELL students have been identified these assessments can be used to help determine the student’s skill level, so that they can be placed appropriately in the school. These same kinds of assessments should be readministered periodically to track the students’ language proficiency growth. Because every student comes from…

My group and I chose to focus on the library center. The reasons we feel it is an important center for the classroom is because the children could built knowledge through readings, improve vocabulary, use their imagination, culture/ religion, and allows them to have a place to relax and choose books based on self-interest. Firstly, children are able to build knowledge from information they acquire in the books. We have to allow children to explore and learn base on self-interest. The…

The following week with my case study student, I administered an informal oral comprehension assessment, by reading him the book, The Mysterious Tadpole by Steven Kellogg. I first showed him the book and asked him to identify what the title of the book was and who wrote the book. Based of the title and the illustration on the cover page, I asked my student to make a prediction based on the provided information. Considering the basics of the book that he was given, his prediction about the…

taught by engaging them in small group discussions. In these small groups, students take turns sharing how that interpreted what they read in class. The goal was to help the students learn how to correctly write words and pronounce words with short vowel sounds. They used letter tiles to individually create words that contained the /ur/ sound. The students then took turns reading the words such as furl or curl and the teacher used the words that the students create to create sentences, she used…

As children age their brains automatically develop the ability to talk, however they must be taught how to read. The alphabet, phonetics, and the ability to recognize words are all skills which must be developed through teaching and practice. Many people learn to read, then graduate to more challenging concepts, but some struggle to learn how to read because of learning disorders. Dyslexia is a learning disability which impedes one’s reading abilities due to an anomaly in an individual’s brain…

The Yorkshire Ripper Hoaxer: case study of Speaker profiling and speaker comparison in Forensic linguistics 1. Introduction “[....] the listener does not necessarily hear what was said, but rather hears their construction of what they think is said; they subconsciously combine the speech signal (the sounds) with prior knowledge of speech, language and context in their own heads (Fraser 2003, cited in Coulthard, et al 2017 p.130). Those words, indirectly, call for reconsideration of…

4_Regarding finding the suitable and effective teaching solutions for these errors, peresentation-pactice-production (ppp) method is used .After all phonemes are presented and described how to be pronounced, a focus on those which cause confusion takes place. Firstly, discrimination technique is used by writing both phonemes /b/,/p/on the board and I would ask the students to pronounce the phoneme /b/ first and then, I take a piece of paper and hold it to face my lips, I say the sound and ask…

Analysis 4.1 Analysis The initial interpretation of the poem comes about significantly as a result of looking at the words used by the poet, particularly about their interconnection and the deviant grammatical and graphological elements. Analysis of lexical features is therefore, a better point to start with a detailed linguistic analysis. This in turn, contributes to the effects of overall meaning that the poem carries. 4.1.1 Lexical level At lexical level we see the lexical choose many single…