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Kormos, Judit; Préfontaine, Yvonne – Language Teaching Research, 2017
The present mixed-methods study examined the role of learner appraisals of speech tasks in second language (L2) French fluency. Forty adult learners in a Canadian immersion program participated in the study that compared four sources of data: (1) objectively measured utterance fluency in participants' performances of three narrative tasks…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, French, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning
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Gu, Tongqing – English Language Teaching, 2014
While the number of studies on the pragmatic development of nonnative English speakers has been increasing, surprisingly little research has been conducted on the development of the ability of foreign language learners to perform the suggestion speech act, with even less taking Chinese EFL learners as the target group. The present study examines…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Asians, Pragmatics