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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Griffiths, Roger – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1990
Rate-controlled recorded text can be used not only to facilitate listening comprehension through reducing speech rate, but it can also help language learners become accustomed to increasingly rapid deliveries. First- and second-language research on temporal variables relevant to facilitating listening comprehension is described, and practical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Research, Listening Comprehension, Oral Language
Griffiths, Roger; Beretta, Alan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1991
A study using spectrographic analysis investigated whether six university professors would modify the temporal organization of their speech when delivering identical lectures to low-proficiency and high-proficiency nonnative and native speaker groups. Results showed no significant modifications of speech rate; articulation differences were between…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries