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Ning Fan; Yingying Ma – SAGE Open, 2024
Researchers have been investigating the effects of different planning conditions on learners' second language (L2) writing performance. However, whether such effects differ regarding specific planning conditions and task complexity has remained underexplored. This study examined the effects of pre-task planning (PTP) versus unpressured online…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Syntax
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Wejdan Mohammad Zghoul; Ruba Fahmi Bataineh – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2024
Aim/Purpose: This study investigated the effect of using Flipgrid, an application through which teachers gather learners in virtual classrooms to allow interaction through video and audio sharing, on Jordanian EFL seventh-grade students' speaking performance (along with the features of fluency, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary). Background:…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
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Ogawa, Chie – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
This study explored two assessment approaches to oral performances: analytical complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) indices and human raters' evaluations. CAF indices are frequently used in second-language speaking (L2) research; however, because tasks are communicative and goal-oriented, the degree to which students achieve such communicative…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Evaluators, Audio Equipment, Accuracy
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Hughes, Bradley S.; Corrigan, Michael W.; Grove, Douglas; Andersen, Sage B.; Wong, Joseph T. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: To inform STEM education for benefiting emerging bilingual (EB) and English fluent (EF) students, the present study evaluated the order effects of integrating science and arts within a large-scale, ongoing effort investigating the efficacies of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)-aligned Science Technology, Engineering, and Math…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Bilingual Students, Art Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Köylü, Zeynep; Tracy-Ventura, Nicole – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
In comparative studies focusing on context of learning, the main contexts under investigation have been study abroad (SA), at-home formal instruction (AH), and domestic immersion (IM). With the global status of English and its burgeoning popularity as a medium of instruction in countries where English only holds the status of a lingua franca, a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Study Abroad, Official Languages
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Al-Rashidi, Anwar Hammad; Asif, Muhammad; Vanani, Masoumeh Ghasemi; Aberash, Amhara – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
As the effects of self-assessment, peer assessment, and teacher assessment on EFL learners' writing CAF and speaking CAF have not examined in Iran, this research compared their effectiveness on developing Iranian EFL students' writing CAF and speaking CAF. Moreover, this research examined the attitudes of EFL students towards the three types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Controlled Instruction, Peer Evaluation, Student Evaluation
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van Os, Marjolein; de Jong, Nivja H.; Bosker, Hans Rutger – Language Learning, 2020
Fluency is an important part of research on second language learning, but most research on language proficiency typically has not included oral fluency as part of interactions even though natural communication usually occurs in conversations. The present study considered aspects of turn-taking behavior as part of the construct of fluency and…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Foster, Pauline – Language Teaching, 2020
This paper reviews how the construct of oral fluency in a second language (L2) has been defined and researched over the last twenty-five years. The emerging picture is somewhat kaleidoscopic, as domains of cognitive, social, individual and linguistic influences on L2 speech have been opened up for study. L2 fluency research presents a wealth of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency
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Tutyandari, Caecilia – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2023
A sense of self-efficacy is an essential factor in preservice teachers' professional growth. This paper aims to explore pre-service English language teachers' sense of self-efficacy in teaching, which includes their perceptions of their teaching abilities and concerns during teaching practicum. Accordingly, this study employed a mixed methods…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Techniques
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Ibrahim Yasar Kazu; Murat Kuvvetli – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2024
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of Duolingo's game-based methodology in improving speaking proficiency within mobile language learning, while also examining the specific attributes and strategies contributing to its success and exploring implications for language education and learner optimization. Given the growing…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Second Language Learning, Computer Oriented Programs, Language Fluency
Aaron Jakob Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students studying in beginning level foreign language classrooms often lack the opportunity to speak spontaneously (Kogan, 2023). Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is a pedagogical approach to language instruction that advocates for the use of tasks to develop learners' second/foreign language (L2) abilities. Games can act as tasks that prepare…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Eva Thue Vold – Language Teaching Research, 2025
It is commonly agreed that learner target language output and spoken interaction are essential to communicative language learning. This video-based classroom observation study of five lower secondary schools in Norway investigated how second language (L2) English and third language (L3) French teachers responded to their students when they spoke…
Descriptors: French, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hsiu-Lien Tu – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: This research aimed to evaluate the impact of integrating the WSQ-based flipped learning method with cooperative learning on speaking performance among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Addressing the challenges EFL learners face in oral proficiency, the study sought to determine whether this innovative pedagogical…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Flipped Classroom, Speech Communication, Pronunciation
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Nicoll 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
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Aydinbek, Canan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2022
Unlike traditional methods, the communicative approaches draw on implicit and incidental ways of learning and contextualised exercises of grammar which improve language performance in terms of fluency and communicative competence. However, the discursive plan implies the use of high-level units of knowledge and the automatization of low-level…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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