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Direct linkJianmin Gao; Peijian Paul Sun; Chenxin Li – Language Testing, 2025
Second language (L2) utterance fluency is crucial for speaking proficiency assessment. The measurement of L2 utterance fluency relies heavily on silent pause identification. However, empirical studies establishing specific silent pause thresholds for L2 monologic speaking are scarce, and even fewer exist for L2 dialogic speaking. This study thus…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Communicative Competence (Languages), Oral Language
Haerim Hwang; Hyunwoo Kim – Language Testing, 2024
Given the lack of computational tools available for assessing second language (L2) production in Korean, this study introduces a novel automated tool called the Korean Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (KOSCA) for measuring syntactic complexity in L2 Korean production. As an open-source graphic user interface (GUI) developed in Python, KOSCA provides…
Descriptors: Korean, Natural Language Processing, Syntax, Computer Graphics
