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Tavakoli, Parvaneh; Hunter, Ann-Marie – Language Teaching Research, 2018
This article reports on a study examining second language (L2) teachers' understanding of speech fluency and their self-reported classroom practices for promoting it. Qualitative and quantitative data collected from 84 L2 teachers in England were analysed to answer the research questions. In addition to the descriptive statistics and lexical…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Classroom Techniques, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tavakoli, Parvaneh; Campbell, Colin; McCormack, Joan – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2016
This study investigates the effects of a short-term pedagogic intervention on development of second language (L2) fluency among learners studying English for academic purposes at a UK university. It also examines the interaction between development of fluency and complexity and accuracy. Through a pretest and posttest design, data were collected…
Descriptors: Intervention, Language Fluency, Consciousness Raising, Multivariate Analysis
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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)