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Saito, Kazuya; Webb, Stuart; Trofimovich, Pavel; Isaacs, Talia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
This study examined contributions of lexical factors to native-speaking raters' assessments of comprehensibility (ease of understanding) of second language (L2) speech. Extemporaneous oral narratives elicited from 40 French speakers of L2 English were transcribed and evaluated for comprehensibility by 10 raters. Subsequently, the samples were…
Descriptors: Profiles, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Evaluators