scholarly journals Balance and Sound Conditions in Adults with Bilateral Cochlear Implants

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Ross Tonini ◽  
Helen S. Cohen ◽  
Ajitkumar P. Mulavara ◽  
Haleh Sangi-Haghpeykar
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Background Noise ◽  
English Language ◽  
Head Movements ◽  
Standing Balance ◽  
Pink Noise ◽  
Bilateral Cochlear Implants ◽  
Eyes Closed ◽  
Sound Condition

Purpose: To determine if (1) balance is impaired in patients with bilateral cochlear implants compared to healthy controls and (2) the presence of sound, non-speech, or speech affects standing balance. Materials and Methods: Four patients with bilateral cochlear implants were tested on three balance conditions on Romberg tests on medium-density compliant foam with eyes closed, with head stationary or moving in yaw or pitch, under 5 sound conditions: no sound, ambient background noise, pink noise, foreign language, English language. Results: Dependent measures were duration of standing and kinematics. Three of four subjects performed well with head still and no sound, background noise, or pink noise. All subjects performed poorly during the head movement conditions when hearing either foreign-language or English words. Subjects could not perform enough head movements during yaw and pitch conditions for accurate kinematic measurements. Conclusion: The no-sound condition did not influence standing balance skills. The addition of ambient or pink noise also did not affect their balance. However, when subjects were distracted by paying attention to words, regardless whether or not they understood the words, standing balance skills deteriorated. Thus, distracted attention in these patients leads to impaired balance, which may impair functional motor skills.

Learning a foreign language by cochlear implant users

2017 ◽  
Vol LXXVIII (1) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Ewa Domagała-Zyśk ◽  
Agnieszka Kłos-Dacka
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
Hearing Impairments ◽  
Communication Techniques ◽  
And Performance

Learning a foreign language is a special challenge for students with hearing impairments as it requires not only developing necessary strategies to learn all language skills in another language, but also overcoming specific perceptual and performance difficulties. The methodology of foreign language teaching to students with hearing impairments describes this process with reference to deaf and hard-of-hearing students of various ages who have various degrees of hearing impairment and who use various communication techniques. However, experiences relating to foreign language learning by people with cochlear implants have not been studied so far. These are students with unique characteristics whose hearing impairments are usually severe or profound and, at the same time, whose functioning is similar to the functioning of hard-of-hearing people thanks to their cochlear implants. It is assumed that their full inclusion in education in mainstream schools and social integration are possible.The article presents the issue of teaching the English language as a foreign language to students with hearing impairments who use cochlear implants (three case studies), especially in the context of the level of independent learning, beliefs concerning foreign language learning, foreign language classroom anxiety or lack of anxiety, and the scope of learning to read, write, speak and listen in a foreign language. In the study, a questionnaire designed by the authors was used as well as the scale FLCAS (Horwitz, Horwitz, Cope, 1986), autonomous scale (Macaskill, Taylor, 2010) and subscale BALLI (Horowitz, 1999).

Selecting the Optimal FM System for Children With Cochlear Implants

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Erin C. Schafer
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Background Noise ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Signal To Noise ◽  
Speech Processor ◽  
System Input ◽  
Optimal Type

Children who use cochlear implants experience significant difficulty hearing speech in the presence of background noise, such as in the classroom. To address these difficulties, audiologists often recommend frequency-modulated (FM) systems for children with cochlear implants. The purpose of this article is to examine current empirical research in the area of FM systems and cochlear implants. Discussion topics will include selecting the optimal type of FM receiver, benefits of binaural FM-system input, importance of DAI receiver-gain settings, and effects of speech-processor programming on speech recognition. FM systems significantly improve the signal-to-noise ratio at the child's ear through the use of three types of FM receivers: mounted speakers, desktop speakers, or direct-audio input (DAI). This discussion will aid audiologists in making evidence-based recommendations for children using cochlear implants and FM systems.

Bilateral Cochlear Implants

ASHA Leader ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Litovsky
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Bilateral Cochlear Implants

Study of Consonant Pronunciations Errors Committed by EFL Learners

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
Ali Akbar Khansir ◽  
Afsaneh Salehabadi
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
English Pronunciation ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Knowledge Of Language

As the topic suggests, the research paper presents Study of Consonant Pronunciations Errors Committed by EFL Learners. Error analysis always tries to resolve language learners’ problems in acquiring second or foreign language setting. Learning to English pronunciation is perhaps as important as learning listening skill, speaking, and spelling. Errors in English pronunciation create several problems for English language learners in their works. In other words, most of the English language errors of pronunciation are due to the lack of knowledge of language learners. However, all the students in our sample are of age group (16-25) at Bushehr language institute and they are all Iranian nationals. In addition, all of them were female learners. An English pronunciation (consonant) test was used to get information about the knowledge of the learners in English pronunciation. Findings of this article indicated that the first and second hypotheses of this article were accepted, but the third hypothesis was rejected. However, the findings of this paper showed that the Iranian EFL students have problem to pronounce English sounds correctly.

Tauchnitz for Translators. The Circulation of English-language Literature in Finland

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 161-179
Author(s):  
Outi Paloposki
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Book History ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Book Production ◽  
German Publisher ◽  
Language Literature ◽  
Selection Of

The article looks at book production and circulation from the point of view of translators, who, as purchasers and readers of foreign-language books, are an important mediating force in the selection of literature for translation. Taking the German publisher Tauchnitz's series ‘Collection of British Authors’ and its circulation in Finland in the nineteenth and early twentieth century as a case in point, the article argues that the increased availability of English-language books facilitated the acquiring and honing of translators' language skills and gradually diminished the need for indirect translating. Book history and translation studies meet here in an examination of the role of the Collection in Finnish translators' work.

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