scholarly journals Perception of the English Phonotactics by Saudi English Majors: A Comparative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-222
Author(s):  
Awad H. Alshehri
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Advanced Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
English Majors ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Intervening Factors

This paper investigates the perception of phonotactics by Saudi English majors, beginners and advanced. Due to the significance of pronunciation of consonant clusters, which are almost absent from Arabic, this work attempts to find the extent to which beginner and advanced English majors accept or reject permissible and impermissible sounds combinations in the onset position. It also attempts to find whether there are any intervening factors that could influence students’ perception of English phonotactics. The focus was on the consonant clusters occurring in onset position. These clusters included two-sound and three-sound clusters starting the word. Most of the words were pseudowords, and the focus was on whether the students would accept or reject these sounds, and whether there was a significant difference between beginner and advanced students, male and female. The paper also considered some intervening factors that could have influenced students' performance. To this end, the researcher conducted a survey to test the perception and rejection of certain sounds in some carefully selected pseudowords. The findings showed that most advanced students scored better in permissible sounds while the results were close in the impermissible sounds. There were some factors that could have had some impact on the results, such as living in an English-speaking community, watching English TV, and listening to the news in English. Suggestions for further research would include sounds in the coda position.

scholarly journals Perception of the English Phonotactics by Saudi English Majors: A Comparative Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Awad H. Alshehri
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Advanced Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
English Majors ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Intervening Factors

This paper investigates the perception of phonotactics by Saudi English majors, beginners and advanced. Due to the significance of pronunciation of consonant clusters, which are almost absent from Arabic, this work attempts to find the extent to which beginner and advanced English majors accept or reject permissible and impermissible sounds combinations in the onset position. It also attempts to find whether there are any intervening factors that could influence students’ perception of English phonotactics. The focus was on the consonant clusters occurring in onset position. These clusters included two-sound and three-sound clusters starting the word. Most of the words were pseudowords, and the focus was on whether the students would accept or reject these sounds, and whether there was a significant difference between beginner and advanced students, male and female. The paper also considered some intervening factors that could have influenced students' performance. To this end, the researcher conducted a survey to test the perception and rejection of certain sounds in some carefully selected pseudowords. The findings showed that most advanced students scored better in permissible sounds while the results were close in the impermissible sounds. There were some factors that could have had some impact on the results, such as living in an English-speaking community, watching English TV, and listening to the news in English. Suggestions for further research would include sounds in the coda position.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study for Emotional Intelligence of Jammu and HNBGU University Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanika Suri ◽  
Shivani Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Statistical Technique ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Emotional Intelligence Inventory

The purpose of the present study was to study the emotional intelligence of post graduate students in HNBGU (Uttarakhand) and Jammu University (J&K) state of India. The sample was post graduate students (120) which were taken from two different courses (Arts & Science) from HNBGU and Jammu University. The total sample was equally divided among male and female. The main objectives of the study were to the influence of Region, stream and gender on Emotional Intelligence. Emotional intelligence inventory by S.K. Mangal and Shubhra Mangal was used as a tool. T-test was used as statistical technique to the results. Results revealed that there was a significant difference between students of HNBGU and Jammu University on Emotional Intelligence.

scholarly journals The Psychological Well-Being among Government and Non Government School Teachers: A Comparative Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiran Vaghela
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Government School ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Result Show ◽  
Test Result

Aim of the research is to find out the Psychological Well-being among School teachers. So investigator selected two groups one is government school teachers  and other is  non government school teachers, both groups have 400 persons. In one group has 200 and other one groups has 200 persons. The all subjects were randomly selected. Data were collected from Ahmadabad district. Scale was use for data collection is personal datasheet and Psychological Well-being scale developed by Bhogale and Prakash (1995), and data were analysis by “f” test. Result show, There is no significant difference between the psychological well-being of government and non government school teachers. There is no significant difference between the psychological well-being of male and female and urban and rural area.

Lexical decision task for taxonomic and thematic categorization in typically developing Kannada-English-speaking bilingual children

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shilpa Nanjappa ◽  
Sandra Sebastian ◽  
M.S. Deepa
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Taxonomic Relation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Female Children ◽  
English Speaking

AbstractThe present study investigated the association between the taxonomic, thematic and combined (taxonomic-thematic) conditions during the lexical decision task in Kannada-English speaking bilingual children. Further, the study explored the nature of categorization skills in typically developing Kannada-English speaking bilingual children with respect to the taxonomy and thematic aspects across gender.Considered for the study were 20 preschool children including ten boys and ten girls in the age range of 4–5 years. A total of 50 pictures, including ten target, ten taxonomically related, ten thematically related and 20 distracters were taken from an internet source. Three tasks were introduced to examine the association of the pictures based on taxonomic, thematic and combined conditions. For the first and second task (considered as Experiment I), the children were expected to relate pictures based on taxonomic relationship followed by thematic relationship in the second task. For the final task (Experiment II), both relationships (taxonomic and thematic) were given for each target picture, and the children were expected to relate it with either one of them. Responses were scored and statistically analyzed.There was a significant difference in the performances between male and female children for the taxonomic condition but not for the other two tasks (i.e. thematic and combined conditions). The comparison across three conditions revealed that the performance of those children varied between the conditions. Further, on pair-wise comparison, there was a significant difference for both combined-thematic and combined-taxonomic conditions but not for taxonomic and thematic conditions.The study supports the phenomenon of “thematic to taxonomic shift”, which is found to be emerging in pre-school children. This occurs differently among male and female children. The preferences of thematic relation as opposed to taxonomic relation is highlighted in the present study.

scholarly journals Comparative Study of Insecurity among Government and Non Government School Teachers

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiran Vaghela
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
F Test ◽  
Government School ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Result Show ◽  
Test Result

Aim of the research is to find out the Insecurity among School teachers. So investigator selected two groups one is government school teachers and other is non government school teachers, both groups have 400 persons. In one group has 200 and other one groups has 200 persons. The all subjects were randomly selected. Data were collected from Ahmadabad district. Scale was use for data collection is personal datasheet and Insecurity scale developed by Indian Adaption of Maslow’s security insecurity feeling inventory constructed and standardized Tasmeen Nagvi, and data were analysis by “F” test. Result show, There is no significant difference between the Insecurity of government and non government school teachers. There is no significant difference between the Insecurity of male and female and urban and rural area.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Gender Differences in Refusal Strategies from English Majors

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1040
Author(s):  
Qiaoying Wang
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
English Majors ◽  
The Face ◽  
Refusal Strategies

Based on Geoffrey Leech's politeness principle (1975), Brown and Levinson's face saving and face threatening theory (1987), this paper is a comparative study of the gender differences in the refusal strategies employed by the English majors. The DCT (Discourse Completing Test) from Tanck Sharyl (2004) is modified in this study. The results of this study show that both male and female students of the English majors use the refusal strategies in a speech act. The differences of refusal strategies between male and female lie in the direct refusal and the indirect refusal. Most of the female students tend to use an indirect refusal politeness strategy to save the others’ face in the communication, avoiding the face threatening, while most of the male students seem to use direct refusal. The achievements of this study make some contribution to the relevant study and provide some indications to English teaching and learning in China. It is of some significance to improve the English pragmatic competence of English majors.

scholarly journals Comparative Study of the Teachers Views about Selecting Appropriate Content for Social Studies Textbook of Primary School Third Grade, Iran

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hosein Saket
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Significant Difference

Background: Textbook, which is one of the most important sources of the students learning in the educational systems also play an important role in the educational system of Iran. Purpose: This study was conducted to compare the views of male and female teachers and authors in the selection of appropriate content for Social Studies textbook of the primary school third grade. Method: the present study was conducted in the form of causal-comparative study using a questionnaire and the analysis of its items. Two groups of 107 male and female teachers teaching in public schools, private and Shahid schools of Tehran were selected using cluster sampling. Further, 6 authors of Social Studies book working in the Research and Educational Planning Organization of the Ministry of Education were selected based on their experience using targeted sampling method. Considering the nature of the questionnaire, 32 items developed by the researchers were completed by the research participants. The collected data were analyzed using nonparametric chi-square and Yates’ correction for continuity tests in the software SPSS 19. Results: results of the study showed that there was no significant difference between the opinions of female and male teachers and authors. Findings: findings of the study showed that there was no significant gap in both scientific and ideological terms among the textbooks authors and teachers. Further, the sex of the teachers could not have any effect the difference in attitude toward the content of the books and this endorses the integrity of the education system.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Personal Values of Male and Female Secondary Teachers of Rewari District

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Goldy Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Secondary Teachers ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Core ◽  
Growth Standard ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Individual

Value makes life worthwhile, education enriches it and society provides circumstances in which one could lead it successfully or whatever it may mean from time to time. Whole educational system revolves around the teachers. Teachers occupy the pivot role. He is at the core of the process who can ‘mend or end’ the future of the individual, society and nation. But the teachers’ thinking, feeling and actions are guided by his personal values. It is a matter of great sorrow that today secondary teachers have proved themselves worthless to great extent. They have not been justifying themselves as they thought to have their educational growth, standard, ideology and other aspects of their personality are embarrassing to the society. What is the mirror of their value pattern, how it can be modified; for it, the researcher took a sample of 100 secondary teachers; out of which 50 male and 50 female secondary teachers. After collecting and analyzing data, it was found that there is significant difference between the personal values of male and female secondary teachers at religious value, social value, democratic value, hedonistic and power value.

Nasalance Scores for Normal-Speaking Irish Children

2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Triona Sweeney ◽  
Debbie Sell ◽  
Myra O'Regan
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Low Pressure ◽  
Speech Sample ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Speech Stimuli ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Nasal Consonant ◽  
Normal Speaking

Objective To obtain normal nasalance values during the production of a standardized speech sample for Irish children and determine whether significantly different scores exist for different speech stimuli for female and male speakers. Design Mean nasalance scores were obtained for normal-speaking children during the repetition of 16 test sentences that were categorized according to consonant type within the sentences (high-pressure consonants, low-pressure consonants, nasal consonants). Participants Seventy children (36 girls and 34 boys, aged 4 years 11 months to 13 years) with normal articulation, resonance, and voice were included. Procedures Children repeated each of the 16 test sentences individually. The sentences were presented in groups according to consonant type, referred to as sentence categories. Data were collected and analyzed using the Kay nasometer (model 6200.3). Nasalance scores were obtained for the total speech sample and each sentence category. Data were statistically analyzed to investigate the effects of gender, sentence category, and gender by sentence category. Results Normative nasalance scores were obtained for the total speech sample (26%), high-pressure consonant sentences (14%), low-pressure consonant sentences (16%), and a nasal consonant sentence (51%). There was no significant difference in nasalance scores between male and female speakers. Significant differences were found between each sentence category (p ≤ .001), except between the high-pressure and low-pressure consonant sentence categories (p = .09). Conclusion The present study provides normative nasalance data for English-speaking Irish children. There was a significant difference between nasalance scores for different speech stimuli.

A Comparative Study of Degree of Activism of Polytechnic and Arts Degree Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meenakshi . ◽  
Rachna .
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Disruptive Behavior ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
Social Concept ◽  
Significant Difference

Activism is a social concept which stands for the non-conformist, inconsistent and disruptive behavior of youth. In the present research this phenomenon is used for the activities of student activists whose activities cause trouble in the normal and smooth functioning of the system of the institution. This study aims to compare the Degree of Activism of Polytechnic and Arts Degree students. The findings revealed that there is significant difference between the Degree of Activism of Polytechnic and Arts Degree students. There is significant difference between the Degree of Activism of male and female Arts Degree students. There is no significant difference between the Degree of Activism of male and femalePolytechnic students. There is significant difference between the Degree of Activism of Polytechnic male and Arts Degree male students. There is no significant difference between the Degree of Activism of Polytechnic female and Arts Degree female students

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