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Direct linkDerwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J. – Language Learning, 2013
Researching the longitudinal development of second language (L2) learners is essential to understanding influences on their success. This 7-year study of oral skills in adult immigrant learners of English as a second language evaluated comprehensibility, fluency, and accentedness in first-language (L1) Mandarin and Slavic language speakers. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Derwing, Tracey M.; Rossiter, Marian J.; Munro, Murray J.; Thomson, Ron I. – Language Learning, 2004
In this study we determined whether untrained raters' assessments of fluency in low-proficiency second language speech were related to temporal measures and whether they varied across tasks. We collected speech samples from 20 beginner Mandarin learners of English on picture description, monologue, and dialogue tasks. Temporal measures were made…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Pronunciation, Second Language Learning
