Understanding Hearing Loss: Types, Assessment & Treatment
Understanding Hearing Loss: Types, Assessment, and Treatment
Hearing impairment refers to quantitative alterations in the correct perception of hearing.
Deafness or Cofosis is the total loss of hearing. In this case, language is acquired through the visual pathway. Early diagnosis and proper rehabilitation are crucial to prevent the most significant consequence of childhood hearing loss: growing up without language.
Decreased hearing loss allows for the acquisition of spoken language through the auditory
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Audio-Lingual and Army Methods
The audio-lingual method, also known as the Army Method, is a teaching style used in foreign language instruction. It’s rooted in behaviorist theory, which posits that certain traits in living beings, including humans, can be trained through reinforcement. Correct usage receives positive feedback, while incorrect usage receives negative feedback.
This approach is similar to the earlier direct method. Like the direct method, the audio-lingual method advocates for teaching
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Language Varieties: An Introduction
Language exists as a code that is shaped by its community members, serving as a model or standard of correct usage. It is diverse linguistically due to the specific use by each speaker or group of speakers.
Historical Varieties
Over time, languages undergo evolution, manifested by changes in their constituent signs, affecting the signifier, the signified, or both.
Geographical Varieties
A dialect is a system of signs with its own peculiarities, but without sufficient
Read MoreUnderstanding Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition
Applied Linguistics
Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field that identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related, real-life problems. The academic fields related to applied linguistics are translation, language technology, computer-assisted language learning, second language acquisition, educational linguistics, critical discourse analysis, language policy, situated language practices, rhetoric, and terminology.
Language Variation
Variation in language use among speakers
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Literary Devices: Definitions and Examples
Phonetic Level
NAME | EXAMPLE | EXPLANATION | ROLE |
Alliteration | It remains an open question how stammering… | Repetition of a single vowel or consonant phoneme. | |
Onomatopoeia | Uco, uco, uco, uco Bee-eater. | Imitation of real sounds through the use of certain phonemes. | |
Rhyme 1. Assonant 2. Consonant | Filled with water lilies (Assonant) He hit the back (Consonant) | Repetition of sounds from the last accented vowel. Assonant: Vowels and consonants Consonant: Only vowels |
Morphosyntactic Level
- Paronomasia:
Effective Communication in Teaching: Techniques for Clarity
Exaggerated Intonation and Stress
- a) Teachers use exaggerated intonation partly to show their students the importance of intonation, but also because the exaggerated intonation will help their facial expressions.
- b) Teachers place very clear stress on the most important words in the sentence.
- c) Intonation and stress carry a lot of meaning in spoken English.
Structurally Simplified Language
- a) Teachers speak in short, simple sentences. They pause at the ends of sentences. They look around the room before