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Direct linkWatanabe, Suwako – Foreign Language Annals, 2003
This study focused on Japanese linguistic features that contribute to producing the paragraph-length and extended connected discourse that is expected at the Advanced and Superior levels in ACTFL oral proficiency interviews (OPIs). From 15 Japanese OPIs at the Intermediate-High through Superior levels, 3,062 predicates were identified. Frequent…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Connected Discourse, Japanese, Language Proficiency
