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Chung, Wei-Lun; Yang, Hui-Chun – Infant and Child Development, 2022
The study examined storytelling prosody (i.e., prosodic variations in retelling a story) and the relation with oral language in Taiwanese preschool children. One hundred and twenty-eight preschool children aged 4 and 5 were recruited and given the following tasks: nonverbal intelligence, vocabulary, syntax, and storytelling prosody. Children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Suprasegmentals, Oral Language
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Barrett, Neil E.; Liu, Gi-Zen; Wang, Hei-Chia – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
This study investigated student perceptions and opinions on an English Oral Presentation Application (EOPA), a mobile learning application designed to assist English learners develop oral presentations and online collaboration skills. This study was part of a Design Based Research (DBR) project which incorporated an adapted Technology Acceptance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Oral Language
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Tsai, Shu-Chiao – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Due to the outbreak of COVID 19, an online bilingual curriculum was conducted via "Google Meet." The learning material was developed and implemented by using a smartphone application, STEMUP, based on augmented reality (AR) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies. This study investigated the oral performance and perceptions…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, College Students
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Lee, Yow-jyy – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
Successful oral presentation effectually involves multi-faceted training of listening, writing, and nonverbal delivery besides speaking orally, which calls for a systematic holistic/multimodal approach. However, a multimodal learning environment for fostering EFL learners' presentation development remains virtually unexplored. This study employed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Hung, Shao-Ting Alan; Huang, Heng-Tsung Danny – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
The study investigated the usefulness of blogs in evaluating English-as-a-Foreign-Language learners' oral performance and explored their reactions toward using blogs as a learning and assessment tool for English-speaking performance. Fifty-one college students participated in a semester-long blog project, and each uploaded five audio entries to…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, English (Second Language), Language Skills, College Students
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Huang, Heng-Tsung Danny; Hung, Shao-Ting Alan – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2010
In the literature, little research has hitherto been conducted to examine the implementation of integrated speaking test tasks. This study, in response, set out to compare the anxiety induced by a reading-to-speak task and the anxiety produced by a speaking-only task and to explore students' experiences of taking the reading-to-speak task.…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Tests, Speech Tests, Test Anxiety