Reading dialect varieties in the literary macrotext

Film and television adaptations of the classics frequently portray the regional and social dialects that supposedly belong to their characters even when in the original novels these same characters speak in standard dialogue or are characterised by way of a few impressionistic – linguistically speaking – brushstrokes. In novel adaptations, television programmes have proven to be even more realistic than cinema. In contemporary film and literature, on the other hand, we can count illustrious examples of how the scale of realism has tipped decidedly towards the portrayal of dialects in literature, rather than in their audiovisual counterparts: novels can be more extreme in their depiction of non-standard varieties than their relative adaptations for the screen. The interplay between literature and its adaptations for cinema and TV screens can shed light on the multifarious function of dialects in fictional dialogues and mirror the changing attitude of readers and viewers towards this socially loaded featur

Automatic detection of accent and lexical pronunciation errors in spontaneous non-native English speech

Detecting individual pronunciation errors and diagnosing pronunciation error tendencies in a language learner based on their speech are important components of computer-aided language learning (CALL). The tasks of error detection and error tendency diagnosis become particularly challenging when the speech in question is spontaneous and particularly given the challenges posed by the inconsistency of human annotation of pronunciation errors. This paper presents an approach to these tasks by distinguishing between lexical errors, wherein the speaker does not know how a particular word is pronounced, and accent errors, wherein the candidate's speech exhibits consistent patterns of phone substitution, deletion and insertion. Three annotated corpora of non-native English speech by speakers of multiple L1s are analysed, the consistency of human annotation investigated and a method presented for detecting individual accent and lexical errors and diagnosing accent error tendencies at the speaker level

A STUDY ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN EXTROVERT VS INTROVERT IN LEARNING ENGLISH

This paper aims to examine the differences abilities between extrovert and introvert personality in learning English. This study describes the differences in the ability of speaking, writing, listening and reading. The approach used in this study is a qualitative approach. Data were obtained by conducting observations and interviews with research subjects. The subjects of this study were students of the third semester of English Education at IAIN Pekalongan. The analysis in this study uses a descriptive analysis related to the differences in English skills in extroverts and introverts. The results showed that the differences between extroverted and introverted personalities on the ability to learn English. In speaking skills, extroverted students are more mastery than introverted students. While writing, listening, and reading skills introverted students are more mastered. But in the aspect of pronunciation accent, extroverts' vocabulary and fluency are superior than introverts. Introverts good in grammar, and comprehension. On the other hand, introverts have superior writing skills in terms of vocabulary, content, and expression. whereas extroverts only excel in terms of content and expression. The spelling and grammar is not influenced by the personality.Therefore each personality have own skills or advantages and disadvantages