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Utterance-Based Measurement of L2 Fluency in Speaking Interactions: A Constructionist Approach
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Choi, Jungyoun; Sung, Min-Chang – English Teaching, 2020
This study examines L2 fluency in speaking interactions based on the number and type of utterances. The participants were 25 Korean eighth-grade learners of English as a foreign language. They performed five communicative tasks in groups, and their speaking interactions were audio-recorded and analyzed to measure the frequencies of sentence-level…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Testing Usage-Based Approaches to Assessing EFL Learners' Development of English Argument Structure Constructions
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Kim, Hyunwoo; Rah, Yangon; Hwang, Haerim – English Teaching, 2020
Usage-based approaches to language acquisition explain language development as a gradual process of generalizing constructions through language experience. This study investigated second language learners' development of constructional knowledge from the perspective of usage-based language development. A total of 169 Korean EFL students at five…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)