Oral Fluency
Knowledge of Grammar, Oral Communication Strategies, and oral Fluency: A Study of Iranian EFL Learners
... of oral communication strategies (OCSs) and the interface of OCSs and oral ...grammar, Oral Communication Strategies Inventory (Nakatani, 2006), and two oral production tasks for measuring ...
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Effects of English and Persian Subtitles on Oral Fluency and Accuracy of Intermediate Iranian EFL Learners
... and fluency, teaching productive or receptive abilities, and motivating learners (Kalanzade, Mirchenari & Bakhtiarvand, ...improving oral comprehension skills and found it can provide textual, visual ...
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The Effects of Read aloud Assistance on Second Language Oral Fluency in Text Summary Speech
... Focusing on text summary speaking tasks, the present study investigated the effects of the activation of phonological representations during text comprehension (operationalized by read- aloud assistance) on the ...
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Using dialogue template in developing low proficiency English as a Second Language learners' oral fluency
... Another dimension of language proficiency is complexity. A relatively new perspective of language development, it requires learners to complexify and acquire new linguistic forms so that it can be added to their ...
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A Socio-cognitive Approach to Developing Oral Fluency and Naturalness in Iranian EFL Learners
... students’ fluency and naturalness, which were the dependent variables of the ...While fluency was defined as the speed of speech and gauged mostly by aggregating the number of syllables produced in the unit ...
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Examining Oral Reading Fluency Trajectories Among English Language Learners and English Speaking Students Un estudio de las trayectorias de fluidez lectora oral en estudiantes de inglés como segunda lengua y estudiantes de habla inglesa
... reading fluency scores and current reading proficiency, similar associations between reading fluency scores and current reading proficiency were found for both ...of oral fluency across ELLs ...
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Combining elicited imitation and fluency features for oral proficiency measurement
... global oral proficiency (Housen and Kuiken, ...is oral fluency, since EI responses are too short and lack ...of oral-language testing (such as the OPI) are geared to identifying and test- ing ...
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The Relationship among ELT Students' Speaking Accuracy and Fluency and Teachers' Oral Skill Class Presentation
... Oral fluency is a measure of how well and how easily you can communicate your ideas clearly and accurately in ...for fluency, for your listener has to be able to hear and distinguish the words you ...
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The Effect of Deductive vs. Inductive Grammar Instruction on Iranian EFL Learners’ Spoken Accuracy and Fluency
... in oral picture description ...their oral fluency, there was a significant difference regarding their accurate use of two of the aforementioned tenses, suggesting that a deductive approach towards ...
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Building Decoding Fluency in Children with Reading Delay and Antisocial Behaviour
... combination of the two places a child on a trajectory with poor outcomes both for that child and for society as a whole. At this stage, programmes such as Reading Recovery are not meeting the learning needs of a ...
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Pag-asoy as a Tool in Developing the Students’ Oral Language Fluency in the Classroom
... developed oral fluency in the mother tongue, enhanced their confidence in class as they expressed their reactions spontaneously, and improved their receptive skill in listening as stories told in their ...
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A Comparison of the Effects of Teacher's Speaking Accuracy Vs. Fluency on EFL Learners' Oral Skill
... and fluency in the ELT classes for the foreign language students especially in Iran may have some positive and negative effects on ELT students' speaking fluency and ...e.g. oral fluency and ...
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Using Error Correction in Teaching Oral Production to Iranian EFL Learners
... learners’ oral production fluency of Iranian ...an oral production pre-test to assess their knowledge of oral fluency at the beginning of the course through topic ...of fluency ...
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Investigation of Problems of Sesotho Oral Reading Fluency in Primary and Post-Primary Schools in Lesotho
... Rasplica, C. & Cummings, K. D. (2013) and Alst, V.J. (2014) also contributed massively in defining-oral reading fluency from different dimensions. Almost all scholars hold similar sentiments this far, ...
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Linguistic dimensions of comprehensibility and perceived fluency:an investigation of complexity, accuracy, and fluency in second language argumentative speech
... higher-order fluency are associated with both temporal and non-temporal aspects of ...of fluency sub-dimensions (speed, breakdown, and repair fluency), revealed that the best predictor of ...
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Oral reading fluency in adults
... reading fluency practice ranged from 10 minutes to 1 hour, representing proportions of class time varying from 7 per cent to 40 per cent (classes were of 2 or ...
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Task repetition and second language speech processing
... Two primary limitations need to be kept in mind in interpreting the findings of the study. First, the decision to collect the data in a classroom context with students working in pairs with each other rather than being ...
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Language, executive functioning and symptomatology—Is fluency a transversal tool in schizophrenia?
... verbal fluency impair- ments, there is still a large debate on troubles that are at the origins of those ...category fluency in schizophrenia, Reference [10] shows that se- mantic fluency is more ...
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Neuropsychological functioning post-renal transplantation: A prospective comparison of a steroid avoidance and a steroid maintenance protocol in relation to chronic prednisone therapy
... neuropsychological assessment evaluated attention and processing speed (Symbol Digit.. Modalities Test, TMTB), memory (RAVLT) and verbal fluency (The Controlled Oral Word. Association Te[r] ...
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Input-induced Variation in EFL Learners’ Oral Production in Terms of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency
... of oral production are associated with some of the previous studies (Ferrari, 2012; Pérez-Vidal & Juan-Garau, 2011) which similarly showed that exposing learners to different input in different L2 contexts ...
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