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  2. Oral skills - Wikipedia

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    Oral skills are used to enhance the clarity of speech for effective communication. Communication is the transmission of messages and the correct interpretation of information between people. The production speech is insisted by the respiration of air from the lungs that initiates the vibrations in the vocal cords. [ 1 ]

  3. Economy (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The economy principle in linguistics, also known as linguistic economy, is a functional explanation of linguistic form. It suggests that the organization of phonology, morphology, lexicon and syntax is fundamentally based on a compromise between simplicity and clarity, two desirable but to some extent incompatible qualities.

  4. Cognitive clarity theory of learning to read - Wikipedia

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    The children would learn to read in the orthographically regular Spanish written language using their Spanish mother tongue, hence gaining cognitive clarity over the reading process. When the children transitioned to learning to read English in their second language, they then took an understanding the concepts of written language into the ...

  5. Plain language - Wikipedia

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    Everyday language should be favoured against acronyms, jargon and legal language. [8] Plain language favours the use of the verb form of the word, instead of the noun form. [8] To increase clarity, use the active voice, in which the subject does the action of the verb. [10]

  6. Intelligibility (communication) - Wikipedia

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    In speech communication, intelligibility is a measure of how comprehensible speech is in given conditions. Intelligibility is affected by the level (loud but not too loud) and quality of the speech signal, the type and level of background noise, reverberation (some reflections but not too many), and, for speech over communication devices, the properties of the communication system.

  7. Plain style in literature - Wikipedia

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    It is a form of rhetoric which expresses a message very clearly to convey a direct meaning. The core values of the plain style in literature are "clarity, brevity and sincerity...". [1] emphasising the dichotomous language forms and features between the plain style and the Baroque style, also referred to as the 'high style', in the English ...

  8. Legibility - Wikipedia

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    Legibility is the ease with which a reader can decode symbols. In addition to written language, it can also refer to behaviour [1] or architecture, [2] for example. From the perspective of communication research, it can be described as a measure of the permeability of a communication channel.

  9. Language proficiency - Wikipedia

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    Developing language proficiency improves an individual’s capacity to communicate. Over time through interaction and through exposure to new forms of language in use, an individual learns new words, sentence structures, and meanings, thereby increasing their command of using accurate forms of the target language.