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Sinambela, Seftirina Evina – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The prosodic features in reading aloud assignment has been associated with the students' decoding skill. The goal of the present study is to determine the reliability of prosody for assessing reading fluency of adult ESL students in Indonesia context. The participants were all Indonesian natives, undergraduate students, adult females and males who…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Reading Fluency, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Ashtiani, Farshid Tayari; Zafarghandi, Amir Mahdavi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The present study was an attempt to investigate the impact of English verbal songs on connected speech aspects of adult English learners' speech production. 40 participants were selected based on the results of their performance in a piloted and validated version of NELSON test given to 60 intermediate English learners in a language institute in…
Descriptors: Singing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tahmasebi, Soheila; Yamini, Morteza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2011
In Sociocultural Theory, mediations in second language learning include (1) mediation by others (2) mediation by self (3) and mediation by artifacts, which incorporates brilliant insights for EFL contexts (Lantolf, 2000). Putting these ideas in a task-based method, the present study aimed at examining the contribution of scaffolding and private…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Reading Comprehension, Video Technology