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Assessing Fluency: Are the Criteria Fair?
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Liyanage, Indika; Gardner, Rod – Classroom Discourse, 2013
In formal assessments of second-language speakers' fluency, the criteria used frequently fail to differentiate between real disfluency and interactionally effective practices, while superficially disfluent, that help with communication and are used by first language speakers. In this study, we focused on pausing, silences and self-repairs in the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Language Tests