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Peer reviewedHieke, A. E. – Modern Language Journal, 1985
Reviews some trends in the measurement of oral fluency in a foreign language and offers an alternative to integrative and discrete point testing and to the oral interview. This alternative looks at two components of fluent speech--speech rate and consonant attraction--as they fit into the parameters of fluency. (SED)
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Wikberg, Kay – 1980
Lexical semantics and contrastive lexical semantics can serve as a background discipline to describe and, to some extent, to explain errors in interlanguage. Two developments in lexical semantics that are relevant in this area are the description of sense-relationships and componential analysis. Contrastive lexical semantics involves mapping the…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Patterns, Interlanguage
