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Direct linkTzu-Yu Tai – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
Intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) are a valuable tool in language learning because they provide opportunities for authentic interaction. However, their effectiveness, compared with that of human interlocutors, in facilitating second and foreign language interaction has not been explored. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of IPAs…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Download full textHuang, Lan-Fen; Gráf, Tomáš – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2020
In its descriptors for oral fluency the Common European Framework of Reference includes frequent references to the tempo of speech and the use of pausing. The present study aims to provide empirical evidence that these fluency phenomena exist; it also seeks to establish how they distinguish two different levels of proficiency (B2 and C1) among L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning
Hsu, Ting-Chia – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
This study examines four elements of learner motivation, attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction, in an EFL speaking course that uses the computer mediated communication (CMC) tool Google Hangouts. The study found that a preparatory concept mapping task before the CMC sessions improved students' perceived attention, relevance,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Concept Mapping, Teaching Methods, Learning Motivation
Kong, Anthony Pak-Hin; Yeh, Chun-Chih – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2015
Background: Various quantitative systems have been proposed to examine aphasic oral narratives in English. A clinical tool for assessing discourse produced by Cantonese-speaking persons with aphasia (PWA), namely Main Concept Analysis (MCA), was developed recently for quantifying the presence, accuracy and completeness of a narrative. Similar…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Mandarin Chinese, Oral Language, Narration
Teng, Huei-Chun – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of task type on the performance of EFL speaking tests for Taiwanese college students. The major research questions explored in the study include: (1) Will test takers perform differently on various task types of EFL speaking tests? (2) Are there any differences in the accuracy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Native Speakers, English Teachers
Ostler, Nicholas, Ed.; Rudes, Blair, Ed. – 2000
Papers for the fourth Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) Conference include the following: "Endangered languages and Literacy" (Nicholas Ostler, Blair Rudes); "Keynote Address: On Native Language Literacy: a Personal Perspective" (Ofelia Zepeda); "A Community's Solution to Some Literacy Problems: The Mayangna of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Applied Linguistics, Dialects, Foreign Countries
Liaw, Meei-Ling – 1996
A study investigated the communication strategies used by students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in electronic mail interactions with native speakers of English. Subjects were 22 university students in Taiwan paired with a like number of pre-service EFL teacher trainees in the United States. The discourse of 87 e-mail entries by the…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis
