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How Do Utterance Measures Predict Raters' Perceptions of Fluency in French as a Second Language?
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Préfontaine, Yvonne; Kormos, Judit; Johnson, Daniel Ezra – Language Testing, 2016
While the research literature on second language (L2) fluency is replete with descriptions of fluency and its influence with regard to English as an additional language, little is known about what fluency features influence judgments of fluency in L2 French. This study reports the results of an investigation that analyzed the relationship between…
Descriptors: Prediction, French, Second Language Learning, Evaluators
An Investigation of Working Memory Effects on Oral Grammatical Accuracy and Fluency in Producing Questions in English
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Wright, Clare – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
This article addresses the question of how far working memory may affect second language (L2) learners' improvement in spoken language during a period of immersion. Research is presented testing the hypothesis that individual differences in working memory (WM) capacity are associated with individual variation in improvements in oral production of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
Language Immersion in the Self-Study Mode E-Course
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Sobolev, Olga – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper assesses the efficiency of the "Language Immersion e-Course" developed at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Language Centre. The new self-study revision e-course, promoting students' proficiency in spoken and aural Russian through autonomous learning, is based on the Michel Thomas method, and is…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Online Courses, Immersion Programs, Russian
Exploring Diverse Settings for Language Acquisition and Use: Comparing Study Abroad, Service Learning Abroad, and Foreign Language Housing
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Martinsen, Rob A.; Baker, Wendy; Dewey, Dan P.; Bown, Jennifer; Johnson, Cary – Applied Language Learning, 2010
This study compared the amount of the second language (L2) use and linguistic gains made by students in three short-term language immersion programs: (1) traditional study abroad, (2) service-oriented study abroad, and (3) foreign language (FL) housing. These were chosen because they represent three distinct program types, providing students with…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Comparative Analysis, Service Learning, Housing
Assessment of Oral Communicative Skills in Early French Immersion Programmes.
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Day, Elaine M.; Shapson, Stan M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
The British Columbia French Speaking Test, administered to grade 3 immersion students, measured their speaking skills through a story- retelling and group discussion task. When 110 immersion children were compared to 25 Francophone children, results indicated that the immersion children were comparable to the francophones in communicative skills…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Education, FLES
Alternative Assessment for Immersion Students: The Student Oral Proficiency Assessment (SOPA).
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Rhodes, Nancy C. – 1996
An alternative assessment instrument developed to assess oral language skills of students in Spanish immersion programs in the United States is described. Originally developed by the Center for Applied Linguistic to evaluate 6-year-old immersion students' speaking and listening skills in a school in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the Student Oral…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods