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Investigating the Contribution of L1 Fluency, L2 Initial Fluency, Working Memory and Phonological Memory to L2 Fluency Development

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Nancy Gagné; Leif M. French; Kirsten M. Hummel – Language Teaching Research, 2025

Within the same learning context, learners' outcomes in terms of oral fluency vary greatly. This study tracked the relative contributions that first language (L1) and initial second language (L2) fluency skill and working memory (WM) made to L2 fluency development. We assessed the performance of French-speaking Grade 6 learners' (n = 47, mean age:…

Descriptors: Language Fluency, Short Term Memory, Native Language, Second Language Learning

The Speaking Proficiency Outcomes of Face-to-Face and Online Intensive Summer LCTL Programs

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Dianna Murphy; Sonya K. Sedivy – Foreign Language Annals, 2024

This article is the first large-scale study to document the speaking proficiency outcomes of intensive programs in less commonly taught languages in US higher education. Speaking proficiency was measured by pre- and postprogram ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interviews (N = 484) in 14 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Hindi, Indonesian,…

Descriptors: Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency

Program To Expand, Enrich, Test, and Evaluate the Teaching of Brazilian Portuguese.

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Jackson, K. David – 1992

The report details a federally-funded program at the University of Texas, Austin whose activities included: (1) an experimental summer intensive language institute to facilitate Brazilian Portuguese certification for nine certified secondary school teachers of Spanish; (2) writing and publication of a new textbook of Brazilian Portuguese for…

Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Conferences, Faculty Development, Higher Education