Publication Date
| In 2025 | 3 |
Descriptor
Source
| Language Teaching Research | 2 |
| HOW | 1 |
Author
| Angie Quintanilla-Espinoza | 1 |
| Kirsten M. Hummel | 1 |
| Leif M. French | 1 |
| Mahmoud Abdi Tabari | 1 |
| Minyoung Cho | 1 |
| Nancy Gagné | 1 |
| Nicoll Stefanie… | 1 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 3 |
| Reports - Research | 3 |
Education Level
| Higher Education | 2 |
| Postsecondary Education | 2 |
| Elementary Education | 1 |
| Grade 6 | 1 |
| Intermediate Grades | 1 |
| Middle Schools | 1 |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| ACTFL Oral Proficiency… | 1 |
| Digit Span Test | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Download full textNicoll Stefanie Castillo-Torres; Angie Quintanilla-Espinoza – HOW, 2025
This action research centered on features of oral fluency among Chilean higher education students, focusing on the 'describing picture strategy' innovation. Set in the context of the Advanced English II course, the study determines the effects of the strategy in boosting oral fluency. The intervention of this investigation was enhanced by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Fluency, Teaching Methods
Direct linkNancy Gagné; Leif M. French; Kirsten M. Hummel – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Within the same learning context, learners' outcomes in terms of oral fluency vary greatly. This study tracked the relative contributions that first language (L1) and initial second language (L2) fluency skill and working memory (WM) made to L2 fluency development. We assessed the performance of French-speaking Grade 6 learners' (n = 47, mean age:…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Short Term Memory, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Mahmoud Abdi Tabari; Minyoung Cho – Language Teaching Research, 2025
To test the predictive power of the SSARC (stabilize, simplify, automatize, reconstruct, and complexify) model of pedagogic task sequencing in second language (L2) writing development, the present study explores the performance of written decision-making tasks with varied levels of cognitive complexity in a simple-to-complex sequence in comparison…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advanced Students
