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Peer reviewedLennon, Paul – Language Learning, 1990
Analysis and comparison of speech samples of advance English-as-a-Second-Language learners before and after a 6-month residency in Great Britain found that the use of a battery of 12 readily quantifiable performance variables could help to identify fluency improvements in individual learners and had the potential for providing objective assessment…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Enrichment, Language Fluency
Peer reviewedHenning, Grant – Language Learning, 1983
Three oral testing methods (imitation, completion, and interview) were compared for reliability and validity with 143 adult Egyptian learners of English. Five components (raw score, fluency, pronunciation, grammar, and combined fluency-pronunciation-grammar) were analyzed for each method. Imitation showed the highest validity, with interview and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Arabs, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis
