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Bosker, Hans Rutger; Pinget, Anne-France; Quene, Hugo; Sanders, Ted; de Jong, Nivja H. – Language Testing, 2013
The oral fluency level of an L2 speaker is often used as a measure in assessing language proficiency. The present study reports on four experiments investigating the contributions of three fluency aspects (pauses, speed and repairs) to perceived fluency. In Experiment 1 untrained raters evaluated the oral fluency of L2 Dutch speakers. Using…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Second Languages, Indo European Languages, Listening
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Tillema, Marion; van den Bergh, Huub; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Sanders, Ted – Language Testing, 2013
It is the consensus that, as a result of the extra constraints placed on working memory, texts written in a second language (L2) are usually of lower quality than texts written in the first language (L1) by the same writer. However, no method is currently available for quantifying the quality difference between L1 and L2 texts. In the present…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingualism, Effect Size, Essays