Powercoaching Program and Oral Discourse Competence of Grade 10 Students

The study aimed to determine the relationship between the oral and written discourse competence of the male and female students of Kalamansig National High School. Specifically, it sought to determine the level of oral and written discourse competence of male and female students in terms of informative, persuasive, and argumentative speeches; to find out if there is significant difference between male and female students’ written and oral discourse competence level in the three parameters; and to find out if there is a significant difference between the oral and written discourse competence in general when classified according to gender. This study used the descriptive-correlation method. The researcher utilized the purposive sampling in determining the seventy (70) Grade 10 performing students of Kalamansig National High School as respondents of the study. The teacher-made communicative written and speaking tests were used as instruments to gauge the male and female student’s written and oral discourse competence. Based on the findings, it was concluded that both male and female students oral and written discourse competence are good. Both group of students need equal attention from the teachers to enhance their speaking and writing skills.

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Oral discourse competence-in-performance

Language and Dialogue ◽

10.1075/ld.00040.can ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 236-263

Author(s):

Maria Dolors Cañada ◽

Carmen López-Ferrero

Keyword(s):

Oral Exam ◽

Oral Discourse ◽

Linguistic Resources ◽

Speech Genres ◽

Discourse Competence ◽

Opening And Closing

Abstract Mastering a language implies being able to deploy a wide variety of speech genres (Bakhtin 1952–1953). However, the features which define these genres are often obscure to students or ‘occluded’ in the sense used by Swales (1996). In this paper, nine dialogues between B1-level French learners in the context of an oral exam are analysed in order to describe the degree of dialogic competence-in-performance (Weigand 2017) achieved. Because these dialogues were of two types, an exchange of opinions and a guided interview, our analysis reveals hybrid results. This hybridity affects the opening and closing sequences of the dialogue, floor-taking in the central part and the linguistic resources used by the students to give their opinions. These findings identify formative needs as well as the indicators of achievement that are required to assess students’ oral competence-in-performance.

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The Language of Quarrels

Paragraph ◽

10.3366/para.2017.0216 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 81-96

Author(s):

Alexis Tadié

Keyword(s):

Current Issue ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

Oral Discourse ◽

Material Conditions

This essay proposes to analyse the mechanisms of quarrels from a theoretical perspective largely informed by linguistics, and more specifically, by pragmatics. It connects with some of Jean-Jacques Lecercle's argument in the current issue, but takes the analysis in different directions. Looking at a number of examples of quarrels, this paper purports to identify the different participants and parameters in the development of a quarrel. These include speakers (authors), texts (more often than oral discourse), institutions that (might) adjudicate, an audience and rules, as well as material conditions under which disputes develop. These parameters provide a framework, rather than a rigid construction, within which speakers may change positions. Special attention is given to the beginnings of a quarrel (what counts as the start of a quarrel?) and to the ends of a quarrel (do they end, or simply cease to be of interest?). The essay concludes on the dynamic of quarrels, which precludes modellization.

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Features Dependent on the learners’ discourse competence: Development of a rating scale description in a speaking test - Focusing on the REFUSAL task -

Korean Language Education ◽

10.29401/kle.169.10 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 169 ◽

pp. 321-360

Author(s):

Hyang Lee ◽

Hae Yong Lee

Keyword(s):

Rating Scale ◽

Competence Development ◽

Speaking Test ◽

Discourse Competence

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Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse. JANE H. HILL and JUDITH T. IRVINE, eds

American Ethnologist ◽

10.1525/ae.1995.22.3.02a00260 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 631-631

Author(s):

GREG URBAN

Keyword(s):

Oral Discourse

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Computerized Oral Discourse Completion Test

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t80696-000 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Shuai Li ◽

Naoko Taguchi ◽

Feng Xiao

Keyword(s):

Oral Discourse ◽

Completion Test

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Evaluation of macrolinguistic aspects of the oral discourse in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

International Psychogeriatrics ◽

10.1017/s1041610218001758 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 (9) ◽

pp. 1343-1353 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Juliana Onofre de Lira ◽

Thaís Soares Cianciarullo Minett ◽

Paulo Henrique Ferreira Bertolucci ◽

Karin Zazo Ortiz

Keyword(s):

Alzheimer’S Disease ◽

Alzheimer's Disease ◽

Language Processing ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Oral Discourse ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Cohesive Devices ◽

Global Coherence ◽

Comparison Groups ◽

Study Setting

ABSTRACTIntroduction:Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a degenerative syndrome that impairs cognitive functioning, including speech and language. Discourse can be used to analyze language processing, which is organized into microlinguistic and macrolinguistic dimensions.Objectives:To identify the occurrence of changes in the macrolinguistic dimension of oral discourse in AD patients. Design: This was developed as a cross-sectional study. Setting: Outpatient clinic of the Behavioural Neurology Division of São Paulo Federal University.Participants:121 elderly patients, with ≥ 4 years of education, divided into AD and comparison groups.Measurements:The subjects were asked to create a narrative based on seven figures that made up a story. The macrolinguistic aspects of the narratives were analyzed.Results:The performance of the AD group was inferior to that of the comparison group on content-related, no-content-related complete and incomplete propositions as well as macropropositions, main information units, appropriated local and global coherence, cohesive devices and all subtypes, cohesive errors and some of their subtypes. Global coherence, macropropositions and ellipsis subtype of cohesive devices were the variables that best differentiated the groups.Conclusions:Changes were observed in most aspects of the macrolinguistic dimension of oral discourse in patients with AD.

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