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Amanda Huensch – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study explored the effect of speaking task on midclause pausing characteristics in the L1 and L2 speech of the same speakers to gain further insights into the potential relationship between pause location and stages of speech production. Participants included English L1 learners of L2 French (n = 29) or Spanish (n = 27) from the publicly…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Speech, English
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Junyan Guo; Martin East – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
The importance of vocabulary when speaking is not only demonstrated in models of second language speech production and speaking proficiency but also reflected in rating criteria and assessment scales. The present study examined and compared micro-level lexical information in a speaking task from two complementary stakeholders' perspectives…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Speech Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Vocabulary
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Mostafa Papi; Mijin Eom; Yiran Zhang; Yang Zhou; Zachary Whiteside – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The study examined how learners' motivational dispositions predict the complexity, accuracy, fluency of their oral task performance and their overall second language proficiency. Eighty-one speakers of English as a second language in the United States completed a regulatory focus and a regulatory mode questionnaire, an oral interview task, and a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Oral Language, Learning Motivation
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Ann-Marie Hunter – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This paper reports on the impact of an English as a Second Language (ESL) speaking activity--"the poster carousel"--on English learners' second language (L2) fluency. Two versions of the poster carousel were developed to observe the effect of talking about (a) the same poster three times (same-task repetition) or (b) three different…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Languages, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners
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Sveta Fichman – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Bilingual children's speech often contains high percentages of disfluencies in both their languages; however, the distribution of disfluency types and the difference across bilinguals' two languages have received insufficient and inconsistent empirical support. The present research aims to profile "typical" bilingual disfluency…
Descriptors: Children, Bilingualism, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Ron I. Thomson; Tracey M. Derwing; Murray J. Munro – Language Awareness, 2024
We examined the naturalistic pronunciation development of two groups of L2 speakers over 10 years. Initially, 50 beginner ESL students participated in production tasks; despite attrition, the tasks were administered eight more times. Here we report listener judgements of accentedness, comprehensibility and fluency for the remaining six Mandarin…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Mandarin Chinese
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Susana Pérez Castillejo; Katherine Urzua-Parra – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study conceptually replicated Huensch and Tracy-Ventura's (2017) analysis of the relationship between L1 and L2 utterance fluency with adult L1-English learners of Spanish. Data from 88 participants were analyzed to explore the proportion of the variance in L2 fluency measures that can be attributed to the corresponding L1 measures, and the…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Fluency, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Jakub Bielak – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The relationship between foreign language anxiety (FLA) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) experienced during a creative collaborative oral English-as-a-foreign-language task, and the relationships between FLE/FLA and task speech fluency were investigated. The task was performed by mid-intermediate/high-intermediate English learners (N = 43) in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Fluency
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Fernanda A. Castellón; Alexandra Sturm; Connie Kasari – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Background: There are an increasing number of English Learners (EL) served in schools, including children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, little is known about students who receive school-based services as EL and under autism eligibility. Purpose & Methods: The present study aimed to examine the sociodemographic characteristics,…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Sparks, Richard L.; Alamer, Abdullah – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Although studies have consistently found negative correlations between second language (L2) anxiety and L2 achievement, the anxiety concept is criticized for the failure to consider confounding variables, particularly first language (L1) achievement, in the relationship between language anxiety and language achievement. Also, past studies tend to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Language Fluency, Achievement
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Boers, Frank; Bui, Thuy; Deconinck, Julie; Stengers, Hélène; Coxhead, Averil – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Second language (L2) learners stand to gain substantially from mastering a wide range of multiword expressions (MWEs), and several studies have examined the benefits of language courses that regularly draw learners' attention to MWEs. However, most of these studies focused on the learners' retention of the MWEs included in the course materials and…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Language Fluency
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Zoe L. Handley; Haiping Wang – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
This paper explores what the measures of utterance fluency typically employed in Automatic Speech Evaluation (ASE), i.e. automated speaking assessments, tell us about oral proficiency. 60 Chinese learners of English completed the second part of the speaking section of IELTS and six tasks designed to measure the linguistic knowledge and processing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Evaluation, Graduate Students, Articulation (Speech)
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Shazia Hasnain; Santoshi Halder – Journal of Education, 2024
Complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) as measures of language proficiency have been used extensively in assessing second language production in English language studies related to task-based language teaching. The present review adds the following critical elements to the existing body of literature: (i) Provides synthesis and critical analysis…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Jiayi Wang; Nicola Halenko – Language Learning, 2024
This longitudinal study examines the effects of a pre-study abroad (SA) pedagogic intervention and subsequent SA experience on second language (L2) Mandarin fluency. It explores two temporal aspects of oral fluency--planning time and speech rate--along with one performance measure, duration of response. Additionally, L2 contact data were included…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning
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Kittiya Phisutthangkoon – rEFLections, 2024
Though there is an urgent need to improve Thai graduates' ability to speak English fluently, very few studies have focused on students' fluency in language teaching in Thailand. The study investigated 86 third-year university students' beliefs regarding English-speaking fluency, including the characteristics and importance of fluency and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Fluency
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