Research on Oral Proficiency
Laughter as Responses to Different Actions in L2 Oral Proficiency Interview
... empirical research methods, starts from a stance that lan- guage, especially in talk-in-interaction, delivers social action instead of meaning, and what actions are conducted depends mostly on their sequential ...
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On the Relation of Locus of Control, Social and Cultural Capital and Oral Proficiency Achievement of EFL Students:
... further research on this topic and this research might have paved the way for future ...another research can be done with more representative sample to find more generalizable ...another ...
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Experience effects on the development of late second language learners’ oral proficiency
... explanation on the definitions of accentedness (i.e., different patterns of speech sounds compared to their native language) (Isaacs & Trofimovich, 2012) and comprehensibility (i.e., the degree of ease or difficulty ...
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University Admission Requirements for the Study of ESL as Correlates to Students’ Oral Proficiency in the English Language
... These requirements are the criteria expected to be fulfilled by any candidate that wants to study ESL in most universities in Nigeria. Literature is also a required subject for entry because it has the potentialities of ...
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Combining elicited imitation and fluency features for oral proficiency measurement
... of oral proficiency can be created from fluency features and ...other research in area that other fluency features can be extracted and used successfully in the measurement of oral profi- ...
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Individual Differences & Study Abroad: Four Profiles of Oral Proficiency Gain
... lower oral proficiency gains during SA can be predicted due to both lower cognitive and affective ...more research is needed in this area to detail these student profiles and evaluate what methods ...
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The role of age of acquisition in late second language oral proficiency attainment
... cross-sectional research design and late Japanese learners of English with short, mid and long LOR profiles (0 to 10 years), Saito (in press) not only replicated Derwing and Munro’s (2013) research findings ...
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English and Non English major Teachers’ Assessment of Oral Proficiency: A case of Iranian Maritime English Learners
... examinees’ oral proficiency and can produce a broad range of ...sessions. Research findings, however, have shown that although training is effective, it does not eliminate rater variability and rater ...
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Personalized versus Normal Practice of L2 Speaking on Iranian EFL Learners’ Oral Proficiency
... Her research aimed to investigate the differential impact of prompts and recasts on the phonological, grammatical, and lexical errors of Iranian EFL university ...
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The Effects of Type and Quantity of Input on Iranian EFL Learners’ Oral Language Proficiency
... language research has paid particular attention to input ...on oral proficiency ...present research scrutinized what types and quantities of input Iranian grade four high school EFL learners ...
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Elicited Imitation as an Oral Proficiency Measure with ASR Scoring
... assessing oral language has been some- what controversial because of its apparent lack of ...as oral language proficiency. However, research is confirming that the technique mea- sures a ...
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Aggression and Oral Proficiency: A Correlational Study
... According to the findings reported in the previous sections, we can positively claim that verbal aggression and anger are the most influential subscales of aggression affecting oral proficiency negatively ...
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Developing EFL Learners' Oral Proficiency through Animation-based Instruction of English Formulaic Sequences
... current research was designed to examine the role of computerized resources (animation) for teaching FSs to young (between the ages of 10 -12) Iranian L2 learners in comparison with the traditional ...
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The relationship between collocational knowledge, speaking proficiency, and the use of collocation in Iranian EFL learners' oral performance
... speaking proficiency and use of collocations in Iranian EFL learners’ oral performance, hence adding a further piece of evidence on the nature of collocational knowledge and its relationship with productive ...
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The Impact of Raters’ and Test Takers’ Gender on Oral Proficiency Assessment: A Case of Multifaceted Rasch Analysis
... the oral test would be held was arranged with comfortable chairs set around a coffee table, a camcorder was placed at a far side of the room, pre-focused on the place in which the test was going to be held so that ...
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Item Development and Scoring for Japanese Oral Proficiency Testing
... Scoring EI items can be done by hand: annotating each syllable, mora, word, or sentence with a binary score indi- cating whether it was successfully reproduced or not. We had human graders hand-score Japanese EI test ...
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The Effect of Narrative Techniques on Cultivating Critical Thinking and Improving Oral Proficiency of Intermediate Iranian EFL Learners
... or oral proficiency is a productive oral skill which is known as the most difficult skill, in teaching English at a foreign language (EFL) since it occurs in real time (Nunan, ...their ...
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Using dialogue template in developing low proficiency English as a Second Language learners' oral fluency
... of oral fluency are varied and without explicit definition, what it means is usually not clear (Freed, 1995; Fulcher, 1996) and is subjected to interpretations (Esser, ...speaking proficiency (Luoma, 2004; ...
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Oral Presentation vs. Free Discussion: Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Speaking Proficiency and Perception
... of oral presentation ...speaking proficiency; moreover, it explored the EFL learners’ perceptions of these two ...first research question indicated the significant superiority of oral ...
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The Relationship between Language Learners’ Willingness to Communicate and Their Oral Language Proficiency with Regard to Gender Differences
... MacIntyre, Clément, Dörnyei, and Noels (1998) have devised a willingness to communicate model (see Figure1) in which different components contributing to a person's WTC have been displayed. As McIntyre, Baker, Clément, ...
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