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Jianmin Gao; Peijian Paul Sun; Chenxin Li – Language Testing, 2025
Second language (L2) utterance fluency is crucial for speaking proficiency assessment. The measurement of L2 utterance fluency relies heavily on silent pause identification. However, empirical studies establishing specific silent pause thresholds for L2 monologic speaking are scarce, and even fewer exist for L2 dialogic speaking. This study thus…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Communicative Competence (Languages), Oral Language
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Waleed Ahmed Nureldeen; Hala Alsabatin; Abdalmuttaleb Al-Sartawi; Reda S. M. Al-Mawadieh – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Humans are born storytellers as they use oral narratives as a vehicle to share their experiences. This study aimed to study how female Egyptian speakers formulate their personal experiences in oral narratives in the English Language. A need of this study was felt because not much is known how Arab EFL speakers build their oral narratives when its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jakub Bielak – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The relationship between foreign language anxiety (FLA) and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) experienced during a creative collaborative oral English-as-a-foreign-language task, and the relationships between FLE/FLA and task speech fluency were investigated. The task was performed by mid-intermediate/high-intermediate English learners (N = 43) in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Fluency
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Alejandro Cano Villagrasa; Nadia Porcar Gozalbo; Beatriz Valles González; Miguel López-Zamora – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and epilepsy represent a comorbidity that negatively influences the proper development of linguistic competencies, particularly in receptive language, in the pediatric population. This group displays impairments in the auditory comprehension of both simple and complex grammatical structures, significantly limiting…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Epilepsy, Comorbidity, Language Proficiency
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Kuan-Yu Jin; Thomas Eckes – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2024
Many language proficiency tests include group oral assessments involving peer interaction. In such an assessment, examinees discuss a common topic with others. Human raters score each examinee's spoken performance on specially designed criteria. However, measurement models for analyzing group assessment data usually assume local person…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Interaction, Oral Language, Student Evaluation
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Zhangwei Chen – SAGE Open, 2024
Motivation and anxiety are two crucial factors influencing learning outcomes, yet limited empirical research on expectancy-value theory can be found within previous literature about Chinese undergraduate students studying English as a foreign language (EFL). Moreover, few studies have examined the interaction between motivation and skill-specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Tavakoli, Parvaneh; Kendon, Gill; Mazhurnaya, Svetlana; Ziomek, Anna – Language Testing, 2023
The main aim of this study was to investigate how oral fluency is assessed across different levels of proficiency in the Test of English for Educational Purposes (TEEP). Working with data from 56 test-takers performing a monologic task at a range of proficiency levels (equivalent to approximately levels 5.0, 5.5, 6.5, and 7.5 in the IELTS scoring…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yau Yu Chan; Nirmala Rao – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: This study investigated the effectiveness of a home-based intervention in increasing the intrinsic reading motivation and Chinese oral vocabulary of minority South Asian children in Hong Kong. A quasi-experiment was conducted with 78 children (M[subscript age] = 51.54 months; control: 37 children, intervention: 41 children) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Motivation, Vocabulary Development, Children
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Xiaoqin Shi; Nini Qu; Xiaoyuan Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
Spoken English Competency (SEC) remains a critical weakness in English Proficiency (EP) of Chinese college students, particularly when compared with their English competency in writing and reading. Despite years of English learning since elementary school, Chinese college students often struggle to master SEC. Although previous studies have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Student Needs, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Claudia Fernández de Cañete García; Inmaculada Pineda; George Waddell – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Recent research shows that musical training improves children's development of oral and aural skills. This study focuses on developing and testing a methodological framework (Music as a Medium of instruction, MMI) in English language teaching (ELT) by contrasting MMI and gamification methodologies with the participation of 22 Spanish children all…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Music Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Sasithorn Limgomolvilas – rEFLections, 2024
Creating its own learner corpus, this research proposed to analyze and classify the transition markers used in solo presentation by 30 Thai engineering students based on Hyland (2019)'s Marker Categorization in Textual Metadiscourse. This research also aimed to identify and compare the quantities of individual transition markers among three groups…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Oral Language
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Raveewan Wanchid; Valaikorn Charoensuk – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2024
This study investigated the effects of different feedback types and English achievement levels on students' oral presentation performance in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context. Specifically, the research aims were four-fold: 1) to compare the effects of oral teacher feedback, oral peer feedback, and online written peer feedback on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response)
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Green, Clarence – Australian Journal of Education, 2021
The oral language proficiency of students in early education is crucial as teachers draw on this as a resource when developing literacy. There is a need to better understand what this oral language resource consists of at school entry, particularly the diversity amongst children so as to address inequalities. This article reports a study on a key…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Vocabulary Development, Expressive Language
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Hetcherla,Narendra Kumar – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
A language 'test' is a systematic procedure for observing a person's behavior and describing it with the aid of a numerical scale or category system (Cronbach LJ 1971: 26). A test cannot be based on a selection of items chosen on linguistic grounds alone, and that to devise an effective test, it is necessary to specify how an examinee requires to…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Okyar, Hatice – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
This research study aimed to explore the speaking anxiety of Turkish learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) and its relation to EFL speaking self-efficacy, fear of negative evaluation (FNE), self-perceived English speaking proficiency, and gender. 293 (132 females, 161 males) university-level EFL students completed the EFL speaking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Fear
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