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Menglin Zhang; Xiaoshu Xu; YunFeng Zhang – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2023
This study designed and implemented a personal learning environment platform for spoken English teaching in a junior high school in China to improve students' spoken English narrative competence. Altogether, 83 junior high school year one students took part in this study. The participants were divided into experimental and control classes for the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation
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Pehlivan Coskun, Yagmur; Seker, Perihan Tugba – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2022
In this study, workshop suggestions are offered to improve the speaking skills of secondary school 5th-grade students through web-based games. The qualitative method was used in the study, and the data were obtained by document analysis. The study includes web 2.0 supported activity suggestions planned to support and improve the speaking skills of…
Descriptors: Workshops, Speech Skills, Speech Improvement, Secondary School Students
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Abid el Majidi; Rick de Graaff; Daniel Janssen – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Many secondary school students' second language (L2) speaking skills suffer from deficiencies; the effects thereof are detrimental to their academic and career opportunities in a globalized world that highlights the importance of oral communication skills. Debate has been considered a potentially effective speaking pedagogical tool that can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Mary Elizabeth Caballero Guillén; Cecilia Cisterna Zenteno – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2023
This article presents the process and results of an action research project which explored the contribution of information gap activities to support a group Honduran ninth-graders' speaking fluency. Their speaking fluency was assessed in terms of speech rate, breakdowns or pauses, and repairs. This study adopted a mixed method approach:…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Articulation (Speech), Grade 9, Public Schools
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Bashori, Muzakki; van Hout, Roeland; Strik, Helmer; Cucchiarini, Catia – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety (FLSA) is known to negatively affect the performance of foreign language learners. Among the four language skills, speaking is the most anxiety-provoking skill. We investigated the presence of FLSA in Indonesian vocational high school students and we tested whether web-based language learning might help to reduce…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Speech Skills, Linguistic Performance
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Saadatzi, Mohammad Nasser; Pennington, Robert C.; Welch, Karla C.; Graham, James H.; Scott, Renee E. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2017
In the current study, we examined the effects of an instructional package comprised of an autonomous pedagogical agent, automatic speech recognition, and constant time delay during the instruction of reading sight words aloud to young adults with autism spectrum disorder. We used a concurrent multiple baseline across participants design to…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Sight Method, Speech
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Hamzaoglu, Harika; Koçoglu, Zeynep – Educational Media International, 2016
The present study was designed to investigate: (a) the effect of podcasts in EFL students' oral performance, (b) the effect of podcasts in EFL students' speaking anxiety, (c) the relationship between speaking anxiety and oral performance, and (d) EFL students' perceptions of using podcasts. This study was conducted in a high school in Istanbul,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Speech Communication