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Nazlinur Gokturk; Evgeny Chukharev – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
While several studies support the appropriateness of tasks delivered through Spoken Dialog Systems (SDSs) for L2 oral communication assessment, few studies have explored the construct of interactional competence (IC) as measured by such tasks. This study aims to address this gap in the literature by investigating the use of IC features by high-…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Interpersonal Communication, Interaction, Dialogs (Language)
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Kharchenko, Tetiana; Semashko, T?t?ana; Dolynskiy, Ievgen; Bespala, Liliia; Ivanova, Tetiana – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2021
The "purpose" of the study is to identify how the speech production component of the linguistic competence, which seems to be a deficiency of using the Moodle LMS in the language training, can be enhanced through the use of the voice-administered language tests. Ten Moodle-based voice-administered language tests were designed, piloted,…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Computer Assisted Testing, Linguistic Competence, Majors (Students)
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Nelson, Brenna Scadden; Petersen, Douglas B.; Rai, Anuradha – Language and Education, 2022
Background: Children in India are among the lowest performing students on international reading comprehension and writing assessments. Oral language instruction may improve these literacy outcomes. Aim: This pilot study investigated whether a multi-tiered system of language support (MTSLS) improved oral narrative language comprehension, reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
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Leda Lampropoulou – Language Education & Assessment, 2023
Extensive oral tasks or monologues of different types (e.g., presentations, storytelling) are often used as second language acquisition tasks in the fields of language learning and language testing. Pre-task planning time is a common provision to test-takers who may use different strategies to prepare their response. High-stakes tests, such as the…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Speech Communication, Test Validity, Culture Fair Tests
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Yaynel González-Robaina; Claudio Díaz Larenas; Yaranay López-Angulo – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
A large number of research studies have highlighted the relevance of oral narratives for describing children's linguistic constraints, developmental stages of narrative discourse patterns, and sociocultural identities. Yet, little research has been found on the use of oral narratives as a means to longitudinally improve oral discourse coherence…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Fluency, Connected Discourse, English (Second Language)
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Jaramillo Cherrez, Nadia; Nadolny, Larysa – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
Speaking in a foreign/second language is a challenge for many learners, even when they have linguistic knowledge. Drawing on González-Lloret and Ortega's (2014) framework for technology-mediated tasks and MacIntyre's (2007) framework for willingness to communicate in a second language, this mixed methods study investigated the impact of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Doosti, Mehdi; Ahmadi Safa, Mohammad – International Journal of Language Testing, 2021
This study examined the effect of rater training on promoting inter-rater reliability in oral language assessment. It also investigated whether rater training and the consideration of the examinees' expectations by the examiners have any effect on test-takers' perceptions of being fairly evaluated. To this end, four raters scored 31 Iranian…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Tests, Interrater Reliability, Training
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Lam, Daniel M. K. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
Linking one's contribution to those of others' is a salient feature demonstrating interactional competence in paired/group speaking assessments. While such responses are to be constructed spontaneously while engaging in real-time interaction, the amount and nature of pre-task preparation in paired/group speaking assessments may have an influence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Tests, Oral Language
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Hsieh, Ching-Ni; Wang, Yuan – Language Testing, 2019
This study investigated a range of fluency, grammar, vocabulary, and content features of young language students' speaking performances, using a discourse-analytic approach. In total, 179 test takers' responses to the speaking section of the "TOEFL Junior"® Comprehensive test were selected for analysis. Mixed-design ANOVAs were used to…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Grammar
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Sasi, Abolfazl Shirban; Haga, Toshinari; Chen, Heng Yu – World Journal of Education, 2020
The present study investigated the feasibility of applying the Silent Way in teaching Japanese to Taiwanese university students. A total of 168 (96 female and 72 male) students in a university in central Taiwan were the subjects of this study. They were studying Japanese as a general course, and were grouped in five classes ranging from freshmen…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese
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Khamkhien, Attapol – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2022
Apart from speaking competence and vocabulary used, refusal strategies play an important role in a communication scenario. This paper investigates how Thai students realise the speech act of refusals to the initiating acts of suggestions, offers, requests, and invitations with regard to the status of the interlocutor. To achieve this objective,…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, Oral Language, Undergraduate Students
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Kourtali, Nektaria-Efstathia – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
The role of recasts, a corrective feedback technique, has received much attention from instructed SLA researchers. While a variety of factors have been identified as influencing their effectiveness in facilitating uptake and L2 development (e.g., learners' age and level of proficiency), the role of mode of interaction has been the object of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Farahanynia, Mahsa; Khatib, Mohammad – Language Learning Journal, 2022
This study investigates the impact on L2 oral performance of participatory structure of strategic planning (individual vs. collaborative pair planning) and task complexity (simple vs. complex tasks) defined according to the number of elements involved. It also explores individual and collaborative planners' planning behaviours prior to simple vs.…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Accuracy
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Marwa F. Hafour – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Owing to the plethora of user-friendly audio/video creation and editing applications as well as free full-featured hosting platforms, videoing and sharing has become a lifestyle of today's students. Utilizing these spontaneous practices, the current study examined the effects of digital media assignments (DMAs) and accompanying asynchronous…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
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Chukharev-Hudilainen, Evgeny; Ockey, Gary J. – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
This paper describes the development and evaluation of Interaction Competence Elicitor (ICE), a spoken dialog system (SDS) for the delivery of a paired oral discussion task in the context of language assessment. The purpose of ICE is to sustain a topic-specific conversation with a test taker in order to elicit discourse that can be later judged to…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language)
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