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The Relationship between Oral Fluency and Conversational Self-Repair among L2 Chinese Learners
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Fei Cao – SAGE Open, 2024
This study examines the developmental relationship between L2 Chinese oral fluency and self-repair in Dutch students learning Chinese. In this study, 76 junior Dutch students were split into two different groups based on level and were tested at two time periods (T1 and T2) for L2 Chinese fluency, which included the control variables of repetition…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Oral Competency of ESL/EFL Learners in Sri Lankan Rural School Context
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Samaranayake, Sarath Withanarachchi – SAGE Open, 2016
This study investigates the current teaching trends and practices in teaching oral English in rural Sinhala-medium schools in Sri Lanka and their relevance to the current theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical perspectives of second-language acquisition (SLA). The present study, which was conducted in two Sri Lankan Sinhala-medium rural schools,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Assessing Spoken EFL without a Common Rating Scale: Norwegian EFL Teachers' Conceptions of Construct
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Bøhn, Henrik – SAGE Open, 2015
This study investigated teacher cognition and behavior in a high-stakes, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) school context where no common rating scale exists. 24 EFL teachers at the upper secondary level in Norway were asked to rate the performance of a student taking her oral English exam and to give an account of what kind of performance…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Rating Scales