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Jin, Tan; Mak, Barley – Language Testing, 2013
For Chinese as a second language (L2 Chinese), there has been little research into "distinguishing features" (Fulcher, 1996; Iwashita et al., 2008) used in scoring L2 Chinese speaking performance. The study reported here investigates the relationship between the distinguishing features of L2 Chinese spoken performances and the scores…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Holistic Evaluation
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Naro, Anthony Julius; Scherre, Maria Marta Pereira – Language Variation and Change, 1996
Discusses a study of concord phenomena in spoken Brazilian Portuguese. Findings indicate the presence of disfluencies, including apparent corrections, in about 15% of the relevant tokens in the corpus of recorded speech data. It is concluded that speech is not overly laden with errors, and there is nothing in the data to mislead the language…
Descriptors: Classification, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction