The present study aimed to develop a set of familiar, common Telugu trisyllabic words that are socioculturally acceptable and linguistically appropriate, and that also meet the stimulus characteristics regarding acoustic-phonetic parameters for use in speech-perception assessment. A pool consisting of 255 trisyllabic words was gathered from different sources. They were subjected to a familiarity assessment to ensure they are known to and commonly used by native speakers of Telugu. This yielded a total of 195 words, categorised into three groups: most familiar, quite familiar, and fairly familiar. Experts in the relevant fields vetted these words to validate their sociocultural acceptability and linguistic appropriateness. The words that accumulated after validation were categorised into three groups: most appropriate, quite appropriate, and fairly appropriate words. These words were organised in a descending hierarchy based on the familiarity level of each word and its corresponding appropriateness level. Finally, these words were audio-recorded and perceptually evaluated by three experts to identify those that fulfilled the stimulus criteria needed for the intended speech perception measure. As a result, 104 words were identified that fulfilled the stimulus criteria and ultimately served as the foundation for developing speech stimuli for the intended speech perception measure.
This is an extract from a Ph.D. thesis entitled “The Impact of Non-verbal Communication in Conveying Meaning in English for EFL Classrooms”. It aims solely at investigating the use of non-verbal communication and body language and their fundamental roles in facilitating English grammar to ESL students. It sheds light on the very significant points that non-verbal communication acts in making English grammar lessons easy and smooth for both teachers and students. The study follows the quantitative and the descriptive methods and the data have been analyzed statistically using the SPSS program. It hypothesizes that (Non-verbal communication helps EFL teachers to convey the grammar meaning).Five statements have been emerged out of the hypothesis to form the questionnaire (see table 2). After analyzing the data, the results reveal that the average of most agreeable statements are 61% and 27.6 strongly agree and agree consecutively. While the least percentages are 8% and 1.8% which are undecided and disagree with 0% of strongly disagree. Based on the obtained results, a conclusion can be drawn that the study is consistent and valid.
In the era of digital intelligence, China-ASEAN cultural exchanges demonstrate significant potential in fostering intercultural exchange, shaping a positive national image, and preserving global cultural diversity. Facing this opportunity, it is crucial to leverage the technological advantages of digitization to empower users, platforms, and algorithms, while deeply integrating into the entire process of cultural interaction, dialogue environments, and the functionality of cultural communication entities. To achieve effective cultural transmission, it is not only essential to rely on technological advancements but, more importantly, to foster discursive synergy and mutual benefit. Therefore, enhancing the interactivity of cultural communication, improving the dialogue environment, and strengthening the functional role of communication entities are fundamental strategies for advancing China-ASEAN cultural dissemination in the digital intelligence era. These efforts also serve as vivid examples of China-ASEAN cooperation in building a community with a shared future for mankind.
In order to meet the needs of China’s high-quality development, the minority concentrated regions must allocate public resources efficiently. It is urgent to promote the effective implementation of financial budget performance management in minority concentrated regions. Through the investigation, we summarized the progress and effectiveness of the financial budget performance management in different countries and deeply analyzed the main problems faced by the financial budget performance management in the minority concentrated regions. These problems include the insufficient innovation of the budget performance management system in promoting the county financial effort in each province and below, the further strengthening of the scientificity of the budget performance management evaluation indicator system to promote the county financial autonomy, and the urgent need to improve the financial budget performance management ability at the county level. After the systematic sorting out of the related documents on comprehensive performance evaluation of financial operation, the author constructed an analysis framework of the comprehensive performance evaluation of the financial operation in the minority concentrated regions, which includes two dimensions, “financial operation behavior” and “government budget function”. Under this framework, we not only clearly elaborated the basic composition of the comprehensive performance evaluation of financial operation, but also determined its core evaluation indicators. In addition, the system also deeply analyzed the effectiveness and deficiency of the county financial operation and provided valuable reference for the local government to make decisions, and also provided valuable experience for other county and even wider local financial management.
This mixed-methods study investigated the use of lexical cohesive devices (LCD) for 56 Arab English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in the UAE. The quantitative descriptive approach was used to find out the frequency of LCD in learners’ essays, and the quantitative correlational approach was implemented to examine the association between LCD and the writing quality. However, the qualitative descriptive approach utilized semi-structured interviews of 4 EFL teachers and 15 EFL learners to identify the challenges that they encountered regarding using LCD in essay writing. The findings demonstrated that repetition and collocations were the most frequently used LCD, while meronyms and hyponyms were the least common in participants’ essays. There was also a moderate positive correlation between cohesive density and the writing quality. The difficulties reported by the participants in dealing with LCD included themes pertaining to awareness and instruction, de-contextualization of cohesive devices (CDs) and feedback and correction.
