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Task Communicative Function and Oral Fluency of L1 and L2 Speakers
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Morrison, Astrid; Tavakoli, Parvaneh – Modern Language Journal, 2023
To respond to recent calls for examining oral fluency from a broader social and communicative perspective, the current study aimed at investigating the effects of task communicative function on second language (L2) and first language (L1) speakers' fluency. Designing tasks that represent three different communicative functions (congratulations,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, Native Language, Spanish
Pedagogical Processes and Standard Dialect Use: Implications for Creative Multilingual Interaction from a Yorùbá-Language Classroom in Southwestern Nigeria
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Agoke, Adeola – Modern Language Journal, 2023
In many language classrooms in multilingual nations, standard dialects are associated with and promoted in formal domains. Through classroom pedagogical processes that reify standard language use, other dialects are relegated to informal domains and therefore devalued in classroom settings. Informed by critical pedagogy, this article challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dialects, Multilingualism, Instruction
Second Language Speech Intelligibility Revisited: Differential Roles of Phonological Accuracy, Visual Speech, and Iconic Gesture
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Wheeler, Page; Saito, Kazuya – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Although intelligibility is a core concept in second language (L2) speech assessment and teaching research, the vast majority of previous work relies on audio-only stimuli. The current study set out to examine how linguistic and visual information jointly interact to determine the degree of speech intelligibility. Both first language (L1) and L2…
Descriptors: Mutual Intelligibility, Native Language, Second Languages, Phonology