Congratulations to Dr Ben Pham who has just received a grant from the Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED).
The project is titled "Speech acquisition of Vietnamese-speaking children" (August 2020 - August 2022)
Here is the summary:
Studying children’s speech acquisition has attracted researchers for a long time, across languages and countries. Theoretical and clinical importance of understanding the typical course of children’s speech acquisition has been well explained in many studies. In addition to reviewing previous studies and creating theoretical foundation, the overarching aim of this project is to describe speech acquisition of Vietnamese-speaking children aged 2;0-5;11 (years; months) and will be achieved through following aims: children’s intelligibility scores, percentage of phoneme correct; age of acquisition; phoneme inventory; common phonological processes; clinical markers to identify children with speech sound disorders from typically developing children; and factors associated with Vietnamese-speaking children’s speech acquisition. Systematic review will be used through searching, collecting, and selecting relevant references to the research then applying content analysis to draw a systematic review on speech acquisition studies across the world and in Vietnam. In order to achieve the overarching aim, quantitative methodology will be applied through cross-sectional design using different data collection methods (including Questionnaire, Delphi method, and Testing or direct speech assessment). Children’s speech samples will be analyzed by Phon software and the project's data will be analyzed by using SPSS including descriptive and inferential statistics.
Here is link of the annoucement: https://nafosted.gov.vn/thong-bao-phe-duyet-danh-muc-de-tai-nccb-thuoc-linh-vuc-khxhnv-do-quy-phat-trien-khoa-hoc-va-cong-nghe-quoc-gia-tai-tro-dot-2-nam-2020/
The grant is for 990 million VND to collect data from 1,000 children including children with speech sound disorders in Bac Giang, Hai Phong and Ninh Binh provinces (three regions representative for three sub-dialects of the northern dialect).
This grant will extend the work that Ben began during her PhD. Congratulations Ben!
