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Mostafa Papi; Mijin Eom; Yiran Zhang; Yang Zhou; Zachary Whiteside – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The study examined how learners' motivational dispositions predict the complexity, accuracy, fluency of their oral task performance and their overall second language proficiency. Eighty-one speakers of English as a second language in the United States completed a regulatory focus and a regulatory mode questionnaire, an oral interview task, and a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Oral Language, Learning Motivation
Solon, Megan; Park, Hae In; Dehghan-Chaleshtori, Marzieh; Carver, Carly; Long, Avizia Y. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This study examines a 30-item Spanish elicited imitation task (EIT) as a measure of global language proficiency for heritage language (HL) learners of Spanish. Results from Rasch modeling suggest that, while EIT scores demonstrated excellent reliability, the ability of much of the HL sample far exceeded the difficulty of the items. Differential…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Native Language, Language Proficiency, Spanish
John M. Norris; Shoko Sasayama; Michelle Kim – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The Elicited Imitation Task (EIT) is a popular technique for efficiently measuring global proficiency in multiple languages, and accumulated evidence indicates high reliability and strong relationships with other proficiency measures. Nevertheless, several dimensions of EIT design remain open to investigation, including the assumption that a pause…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Task Analysis, Stimuli, Correlation
María Díez-Ortega; Kristopher Kyle – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Research has indicated that lexical richness is an important indicator of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most research has examined written, cross-sectional English L2 corpora and does not necessarily indicate how spoken lexical use develops over time or whether observed trends are stable across L2s. This study adds to previous…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Language Proficiency
Kristopher Kyle; Hakyung Sung; Masaki Eguchi; Fred Zenker – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Although lexical diversity is often used as a measure of productive proficiency (e.g., as an aspect of lexical complexity) in SLA studies involving oral tasks, relatively little research has been conducted to support the reliability and/or validity of these indices in spoken contexts. Furthermore, SLA researchers commonly use indices of lexical…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Validity
Winke, Paula; Zhang, Xiaowan; Pierce, Steven J. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Second language (L2) teachers may shy away from self-assessments because of warnings that students are not accurate self-assessors. This information stems from meta-analyses in which self-assessment scores on average did not correlate highly with proficiency test results. However, researchers mostly used Pearson correlations, when polyserial could…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Language Proficiency
Albarqi, Ghadah; Tavakoli, Parvaneh – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The current study examined the effects of task condition (TC; single vs. dual) and proficiency level (PL) on self-monitoring of second language (L2) speakers. Data were collected from sixty-six female L2 learners of English performing two speaking tasks under two task conditions. While performance in the single-task condition involved only…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nathan Vandeweerd; Alex Housen; Magali Paquot – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study builds upon previous research investigating the construct validity of phraseological complexity as an index of L2 development and proficiency. Whereas previous studies have focused on cross-sectional comparisons of written productions across proficiency levels, the current study compares the "longitudinal" development of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Longitudinal Studies
Isbell, Daniel R.; Son, Young-A – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
Elicited Imitation Tests (EITs) are commonly used in second language acquisition (SLA)/bilingualism research contexts to assess the general oral proficiency of study participants. While previous studies have provided valuable EIT construct-related validity evidence, some key gaps remain. This study uses an integrative data analysis to further…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Imitation, Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Lee, Eun-Kyoung Rosa – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The present study examined whether early immersive L2 exposure in a foreign language learning context can yield long-term advantages in L2 morpho-syntactic sensitivity. Participants were 40 Korean university students with high English proficiency, who had either attended an English kindergarten or begun learning English in a classroom, and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Morphemes, Syntax
Solon, Megan; Park, Hae In; Henderson, Carly; Dehghan-Chaleshtori, Marzieh – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Elicited imitation tasks (EITs) have been shown to be a valid, reliable, and practical method for establishing second-language (L2) oral proficiency across a variety of languages. Nevertheless, research that has validated existing EITs has most often explored a narrow range of learner proficiencies or has examined how well the EIT distinguishes…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Wu, Shu-Ling; Tio, Yee Pin; Ortega, Lourdes – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
Elicited imitation (EI), a short-cut measure of global proficiency in second language (L2) research, requires participants to listen to sentences and repeat them as closely as possible. To support instrument sharing and assessment of L2 proficiency for longitudinal and crosslinguistic research, we created a parallel form of an EI task (EIT) for L2…
Descriptors: Imitation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Bowden, Harriet Wood – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
Proficiency is a key variable in late second language (L2) learning, but one that is undermeasured in current research. This study investigates whether L2 oral proficiency can be quickly and reliably assessed via the Spanish "elicited imitation task" (EIT; Ortega, Iwashita, Rabie, & Norris, 1999). Thirty-seven L2 learners of Spanish…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Oral Language, Spanish
Bryfonski, Lara; Ma, Xue – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The current study investigates the effects of more explicit versus more implicit corrective feedback on beginner Mandarin learners' perception and production of Mandarin tones. The effects of oral corrective feedback have been extensively investigated for various domains of second language acquisition (see Mackey & Goo, 2007). For phonological…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Tone Languages, Mandarin Chinese, Error Correction
Lambert, Craig; Kormos, Judit; Minn, Danny – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
This study examines the relationship between the repetition of oral monologue tasks and immediate gains in L2 fluency. It considers the effect of aural-oral task repetition on speech rate, frequency of clause-final and midclause filled pauses, and overt self-repairs across different task types and proficiency levels and relates these findings to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Oral Language