Utilisation of prosody in sentence processing and communicative effectiveness among second language users: a case of Malaysian speakers / Julia Madzalan

This study focuses on the utilisation of prosody features, namely the pitch or intonation, stress and pause pattern in assisting comprehension of spoken interaction among users of English as second language in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are to identify the relation between prosody utilis...

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Main Author:	Madzalan, Julia
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	English language
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/38252/1/38252.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.382522023-01-26T09:32:48Z Utilisation of prosody in sentence processing and communicative effectiveness among second language users: a case of Malaysian speakers / Julia Madzalan 2017 Madzalan, Julia English language This study focuses on the utilisation of prosody features, namely the pitch or intonation, stress and pause pattern in assisting comprehension of spoken interaction among users of English as second language in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are to identify the relation between prosody utilisation and communicative effectiveness among second language users in Malaysia; as well as identifying the most facilitating prosody feature in assisting comprehension. The study mainly refers to theories as proposed by Teilanyo (2010) and Gilbert (2008) and the study design refers to a model proposed by Peppe (2011). 30 respondents were involved in the pilot study and 106 respondents were involved in the main study. A quasi experimental design was adopted in the study using Pre- and Post-test design, and analysis was conducted using paired sample t-test in testing the hypotheses formed. After completion of the tests, a set of questionnaire was distributed to respondents in the experimental group for the purpose of data triangulation. It was found in this study that prosody facilitated comprehension in communication among second language users in Malaysia. Pitch or intonation pattern is found to be the most facilitating feature, followed by stress pattern and the least facilitating feature is pause pattern. 2017 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/38252/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/38252/1/38252.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Academy of Language Studies Zainal Abidin, Saidatul Akmar
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spellingShingle	English language Madzalan, Julia Utilisation of prosody in sentence processing and communicative effectiveness among second language users: a case of Malaysian speakers / Julia Madzalan
description	This study focuses on the utilisation of prosody features, namely the pitch or intonation, stress and pause pattern in assisting comprehension of spoken interaction among users of English as second language in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are to identify the relation between prosody utilisation and communicative effectiveness among second language users in Malaysia; as well as identifying the most facilitating prosody feature in assisting comprehension. The study mainly refers to theories as proposed by Teilanyo (2010) and Gilbert (2008) and the study design refers to a model proposed by Peppe (2011). 30 respondents were involved in the pilot study and 106 respondents were involved in the main study. A quasi experimental design was adopted in the study using Pre- and Post-test design, and analysis was conducted using paired sample t-test in testing the hypotheses formed. After completion of the tests, a set of questionnaire was distributed to respondents in the experimental group for the purpose of data triangulation. It was found in this study that prosody facilitated comprehension in communication among second language users in Malaysia. Pitch or intonation pattern is found to be the most facilitating feature, followed by stress pattern and the least facilitating feature is pause pattern.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Madzalan, Julia
author_facet	Madzalan, Julia
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title	Utilisation of prosody in sentence processing and communicative effectiveness among second language users: a case of Malaysian speakers / Julia Madzalan
title_short	Utilisation of prosody in sentence processing and communicative effectiveness among second language users: a case of Malaysian speakers / Julia Madzalan
title_full	Utilisation of prosody in sentence processing and communicative effectiveness among second language users: a case of Malaysian speakers / Julia Madzalan
title_fullStr	Utilisation of prosody in sentence processing and communicative effectiveness among second language users: a case of Malaysian speakers / Julia Madzalan
title_full_unstemmed	Utilisation of prosody in sentence processing and communicative effectiveness among second language users: a case of Malaysian speakers / Julia Madzalan
title_sort	utilisation of prosody in sentence processing and communicative effectiveness among second language users: a case of malaysian speakers / julia madzalan
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
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Utilisation of prosody in sentence processing and communicative effectiveness among second language users: a case of Malaysian speakers / Julia Madzalan

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