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Tsang, Art – Language Teaching Research, 2022
While most empirical studies have investigated the improvement of learners' L2 spoken proficiency via speaking-related interventions, the present study examined the same topic through a different modality: listening. Ninety-five first-year tertiary-level students of English as a second language (ESL) in Hong Kong participated in this three-month…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Crosthwaite, Peter Robert; Raquel, Michelle – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
This study determines the fine-grained bottom-up linguistic features involved in successful second language (L2) English academic group oral tutorial discussion through the use of a spoken learner corpus composed of more than 20 hrs of L2 production. Student performances were graded by teacher-raters using a can-do rating scale, which assessed…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns