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Skehan, Peter; Foster, Pauline – Language Learning, 1999
Explored the effects of inherent task structure and processing load on narrative retelling task performance, analyzing task performance in terms of competition among fluency, complexity, and accuracy. Research with young adults found that degree of inherent task structure more strongly affected fluency of performance. Processing load influenced…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Fluency, Language Processing, Language Proficiency