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Jie Qin; Dilin Liu – Applied Linguistics, 2025
In response to calls for an assessment tool that provides a separate performance dimension from the linguistic quality-oriented measures of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) and guided by systemic functional linguistic (SFL) theories, this study introduces a set of fine-grained objective measures of communication/content/function…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Linguistic Theory
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Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching Research, 2019
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) and task-supported language teaching (TSLT) are often seen as incompatible as they draw on different theories of language learning and language teaching. The position adopted in this article, however, is that both approaches are needed especially in instructional contexts where 'pure' task-based teaching may be…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency
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Ellis, Rod – Applied Linguistics, 2009
The main purpose of this article is to review studies that have investigated the effects of three types of planning (rehearsal, pre-task planning, and within-task planning) on the fluency, complexity, and accuracy of L2 performance. All three types of planning have been shown to have a beneficial effect on fluency but the results for complexity…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Individual Differences, Classroom Communication, Oral Language
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Dromey, Christopher; Shim, Erin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: The goal of this study was to evaluate aspects of the "functional distance hypothesis," which predicts that tasks regulated by brain networks in closer anatomic proximity will interfere more with each other than tasks controlled by spatially distant regions. Speech, verbal fluency, and manual motor tasks were examined to ascertain whether…
Descriptors: Sentences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Young Adults, Language Fluency
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Dunn, Alexandra L.; Fox Tree, Jean E. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
The lack of consistency in how bilingual language dominance is assessed currently impedes cross-experiment comparisons (Grosjean, 1998). We present a paper-and-pencil dominance scale that can be used to quantify the language dominancy of bilingual participants. The scale targets three main criteria important in gauging dominance (Grosjean, 1998;…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Translation, Measures (Individuals), Language Fluency
Ozdener, Nesrin; Satar, H. Muge – Online Submission, 2008
Among the challenges many teachers face in facilitating the improvement of speaking skills are sparing sufficient time for practice to enable students to achieve fluency in speaking through internalizing the structures, and establishing a balance between fluency and accuracy. This study aimed to seek an answer to the question as to whether…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
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Michel, Marije C.; Kuiken, Folkert; Vedder, Ineke – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
This study puts the Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson 2005) to the test with respect to its predictions of the effects of changes in task complexity ([plus or minus] few elements) and task condition ([plus or minus] monologic) on L2 performance. 44 learners of Dutch performed both a simple and a complex oral task in either a monologic or a dialogic…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Indo European Languages, Cognitive Development, Difficulty Level
Wakefield, Claire E.; Homewood, Judi; Taylor, Alan J. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2006
Studies of how children who are blind acquire and use language have focused less on cognitive compensations and more on delays in development. Vision is important in the establishment of early communicative patterns, and sighted children regularly use contextual visual information, such as a speaker's gestures and eye gaze, to make sense of speech…
Descriptors: Vision, Nonverbal Communication, Blindness, Auditory Discrimination
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Diaz, Michael; Sailor, Kevin; Cheung, Doris; Kuslansky, Gail – Brain and Language, 2004
Many studies have found that patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) perform significantly worse than normal controls on verbal fluency tasks. Moreover, some studies have found that AD patients' deficits compared to controls are more severe for semantic fluency (e.g., vegetables) than for letter fluency (e.g. words that begin with F). These…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Semantics, Language Fluency, Graphemes
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Lee, Chia-Lin; Hung, Daisy L.; Tse, John K. -P.; Lee, Chia-Ying; Tsai, Jie-Li; Tzeng, Ovid J. -L. – Brain and Language, 2005
The current study addresses the debate between so-called "structural" and "processing limitation" accounts of aphasia, i.e., whether language impairments reflect the "loss" of linguistic knowledge or its representations, or instead reflect a limitation in processing resources. Confrontation-naming task and category-judgment tasks were used to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Aphasia, Language Processing, Structural Linguistics