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Reading Aloud Speed as a Factor in Oral Fluency and General Language Proficiency?

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Coniam, David – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1990

A study investigated the validity of a second-language student's actual speed of delivery of a passage read aloud as an indicator of second-language fluency. The study, conducted in Hong Kong with 83 secondary school students, used the oral dialogue test in a standardized secondary school-leaving examination. The dialogues were timed and the rate…

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