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Pausing Patterns: Differences between L2 Learners and Native Speakers
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Tavakoli, Parvaneh – ELT Journal, 2011
This paper reports on a comparative study of pauses made by L2 learners and native speakers of English while narrating picture stories. The comparison is based on the number of pauses and total amount of silence in the middle and at the end of clauses in the performance of 40 native speakers and 40 L2 learners of English. The results of the…
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), Comparative Analysis, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Native Speakers and Task Performance: Comparing Effects on Complexity, Fluency, and Lexical Diversity
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Foster, Pauline; Tavakoli, Parvaneh – Language Learning, 2009
This article argues that a native-speaker baseline is a neglected dimension of studies into second language (L2) performance. If we investigate how learners perform language tasks, we should distinguish what performance features are due to their processing an L2 and which are due to their performing a particular task. Having defined what we mean…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Language Fluency