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Schmidgall, Jonathan Edgar – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research suggests that listener perceptions of a speaker's oral language use, or a speaker's "comprehensibility," may be influenced by a variety of speaker-, listener-, and context-related factors. Primary speaker factors include aspects of the speaker's proficiency in the target language such as pronunciation and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Familiarity, Oral Language, Grammar
Huang, Heng-Tsung Danny – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Thus far, few research studies have examined the practice of integrated speaking test tasks in the field of second/foreign language oral assessment. This dissertation utilized structural equation modeling (SEM) and qualitative techniques to explore the relationships among topical knowledge, anxiety, and integrated speaking test performance and to…
Descriptors: Expertise, Speech Communication, Structural Equation Models, Research Methodology