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Eva Thue Vold – Language Teaching Research, 2025
It is commonly agreed that learner target language output and spoken interaction are essential to communicative language learning. This video-based classroom observation study of five lower secondary schools in Norway investigated how second language (L2) English and third language (L3) French teachers responded to their students when they spoke…
Descriptors: French, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Dobrego, Aleksandra; Konina, Alena; Mauranen, Anna – Language Awareness, 2023
We investigated how native and fluent users of English segment continuous speech and to what extent they use sound-related and structure-related cues. As suggested by the notion of multi-competence, L1 users are not seen as ideal models with perfect command of English, and L2 users not as lacking in competence. We wanted to see how language…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Cues, Intonation
Ockey, Gary J.; Chukharev-Hudilainen, Evgeny – Applied Linguistics, 2021
A challenge of large-scale oral communication assessments is to feasibly assess a broad construct that includes interactional competence. One possible approach in addressing this challenge is to use a spoken dialog system (SDS), with the computer acting as a peer to elicit a ratable speech sample. With this aim, an SDS was built and four trained…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Grammar, Language Fluency, Language Tests
Gordon, Joshua – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
Explicit pronunciation instruction enhances production of intelligible, comprehensible, and fluent second language (L2) speech. Additionally, task-based instruction (TBI) enhances the production of segmentals and suprasegmentals, and promotes awareness of L2 forms in pronunciation. Since most previous research on TBI in L2 pronunciation learning…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Speech Communication, Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods
Chou, Mu-Hsuan – Language Education & Assessment, 2021
Speaking a foreign language is a complicated process that involves linguistic competence, skills, and strategy use. Communicating through English in English for Academic Purposes courses is a basic requirement for EFL learners, but it can be a challenge. To improve the quality of speech, strengthen components of speaking competence, and raise…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
López Páez, Kevin – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2020
With the advent of communicative methodologies, the promise to develop both fluency and accuracy was made as a goal for teaching and learning English as an international language. However, it did not happen (Richards, 2008). In an attempt to equalize students' both semantic and syntactic competence, this study investigates the impact of Swain's…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Tüm, Gülden; Emre, Gülsah Parmaksiz – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
Since most class activities revolve around the utilization of textbook, selecting an appropriate basis for teaching is one of the most important decisions a teacher is liable to make in shaping the content and nature of teaching and learning. While the quality of textbooks has improved dramatically in recent years, the process of selecting an…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Speech Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Nazarloo, Fahimeh Ashja; Yaghoubi-Notash, Massoud – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2018
An advantage of the communication-based instruction in an EFL situation is prioritizing fluency and meaning negotiation though of course at the cost of accuracy. Researchers have, therefore, found feedback on the learners' erroneous utterances quite appealing so that form can be attended to against the wider backdrop of meaning-focused involvement…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Grammar, Accuracy, English (Second Language)
Galante, Angelica; Thomson, Ron I. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2017
Although the development of second language (L2) oral fluency has been widely investigated over the past several decades, there remains a paucity of research examining language instruction specifically aimed at improving this cognitive skill. In this study, the researchers investigate how instructional techniques adapted from drama can positively…
Descriptors: Drama, Oral Language, Language Fluency, Teaching Methods
Sadovets, Olesya – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2014
The necessity of forming foreign communicative competence of adult immigrants has been substantiated. The topicality of this issue for Ukraine has been defined. The experience of Global Talent Bridge, an initiative of World Education Services that is dedicated to helping skilled immigrants fully utilize their talents and education in the United…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Immigrants, Adult Education, English (Second Language)
Boz, Umit – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Much research has examined how different patterns of social interaction shape language learners' interactional roles (e.g., collaborative, dominant, passive) in peer-to-peer conversations. However, little or no research has investigated the co-construction of such roles in multiparty, online task-based dialogues within the framework of discursive…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Discourse Communities, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes
Kennedy, Sara; Trofimovich, Pavel – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
By the end of their studies, non-native speakers of English studying at English-medium universities have had several years of exposure to English in that setting. Do non-native students, particularly those enrolled in non-language related programs, show different levels of second language (L2) speaking ability in their final semester of studies…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Seniors, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
Spangler, Donna E. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
No empirical studies exist comparing the effectiveness of the two prevalent foreign language methodologies, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS), at helping students achieve second language acquisition. In turn, the purpose of this quantitative, quasi-experimental study was to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Rondon-Pari, Graziela – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2011
This study reflects a social constructivist theoretical framework in which the zone of proximal development (ZPD) is a central element, as two teaching approaches, communicative language teaching (CLT) and explicit focus on form (FonF) are examined. Research questions include: Are CLT and explicit FonF conducive to reaching the ZPD? Is there a…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction

Nikolov, Marianne; Krashen, Stephen – System, 1997
Compares children who studied English as a foreign language in Hungary with a communication/content-based approach to similar children who studied English with a form-based traditional approach. Findings reveal that the former were slightly more accurate in their production of grammatical morphemes in an oral interview and were more fluent. (three…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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