Speaking skills have been neglected in many language curricula and assessments at
tertiary level, producing students who are viewed as structurally competent but …

Background The increase in the number of reported conversation partner programmes for
conversation partners of people with aphasia demonstrates increased awareness of partner …

Alternating between languages in an FL classroom is first of all observed in teacher talk
which is an important dimension of FL teachers' discourse.(Tsui 2008). The empirical study …

A major challenge for the speech-language pathology profession in many cultures is to
address the mismatch between the “linguistic homogeneity of the speech-language …

Three criteria for diagnosing specific language impairment (SLI) are defined in the literature:
exclusionary definitions, inclusionary definitions, and qualitative markers. However, the …

Background This crossover study compared the effects of two osteopathic treatments
specific laryngeal manipulation (SLM) and postural manual therapy (PMT) on voice quality …

Sociolinguistic research has established that glottal realisations of the voiceless alveolar
stop/t/have become increasingly common in accents of British English. The phenomenon …

Speech-language pathology faces a serious dilemma as it enters the year 2000. On the one
hand, one-third of clinical caseloads will involve teaching nonnative speakers of English …

This article examines ways in which teachers may modify their language according to the
competence of their students and is based on research conducted using two groups of …

This article focuses on language learning styles, the overall patterns that give direction to
language learning behaviour. The context is the multicultural ESL/EFL classroom at the …