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Native speakers' perceptions of fluency and accent in L2 speech
foreign accent L2 specific fluency native raters perception of L2 speech second language learners
2015/5/5
Oral fluency and foreign accent distinguish L2 from L1 speech production. In language testing practices, both fluency and accent are usually assessed by raters. This study investigates what exactly na...
The Perception of Fluency in Native and Nonnative Speech
fluency disfluencies hesitations phonetic manipulations nonnative speech
2015/5/5
Where native speakers supposedly are fluent by default, nonnative speakers often have to strive hard to achieve a nativelike fluency level. However, disfluencies (such as pauses, fillers, repairs, etc...
When Left Is “Right”: Motor Fluency Shapes Abstract Concepts
abstract concepts body-specificity hypothesis
2015/4/10
Right- and left-handers implicitly associate positive ideas like “goodness” and “honesty” more strongly with their dominant side
of space, the side on which they can act more fluently, and negative ...
Emotion and Executive Functioning: Th Effct of Normal Mood States on Fluency Tasks
Emotion and Executive Functioning Normal Mood States Fluency Tasks
2014/10/28
EEG activation studies suggest cerebral lateralization of emotions with greater left than right prefrontal activation during positive mood states and greater right than left prefrontal activation duri...
Enhancing Students’ Fluency in Writing: Learning to Use Transition Words
Writing Fluency Feedback Transition Words
2013/1/28
This study uses experimental and control group data to investigate whether learning to use transition words results in enhancing students’ fluency in writing. Common sentence connectors, such as moreo...
Unique Screener of Reading Fluency and Comprehension for Adolescents and Adults
Reading Assessment Adolescent Adult
2013/2/19
Because there are few brief reading fluency screeners available for older adolescents and adults we developed one, then investigated its psychometric properties, obtained for 161 college students. Two...
The Role of Input, Interaction and Output in the Development of Oral Fluency
Input Interaction Output Oral fluency
2010/3/5
This paper is a research in the second Language acquisition (SLA) with its focus on the role of input, interaction and output in the development of oral fluency in the EFL context from both a theoreti...
Secret Partner Journals for Motivation,Fluency and Fun
Secret Partner Journals Motivation Fluency Fun
2009/10/19
Japanese students generally like to write in journals or diaries. For most of this writing in the foreign language class, the audience is their teacher. While students do enjoy writing to and receivin...
Most researchers calculate the time needed to become fluent in English by studying persons who have already reached fluency Studying those who had not yet reached fluency, when researchers evaluated t...
Improving Science Students' Fluency through Project Work
Science Students' Fluency Project Work
2009/10/19
In recent years, L1 and L2 classroom-based research has shown the effect of interest and involvement in the task in motivating students for communicating in the language. Project work is one example o...
To give students more fluency practice, students are required to tape conversations outside of class every week. The results of this "partner taping" have been encouraging. Students stay in English wh...
Using Video to Develop Writing Fluency in Low-Proficiency ESL Students
Writing Fluency Low-Proficiency ESL Students
2009/10/15
The years of grammar and vocabulary instruction given to most Asian students do little to help them express themselves in writing. Typically, they have considerable difficulty accessing the language r...
Cultural Fluency as a Guide to Effective Intercultural Communication:The Case of Japan and the U.S.
intercultural communication cultural fluency cultural communication Japanese forms of communication nonverbal communication
2009/8/20
Intercultural communication serves a vital role in that it can forestall miscommunication and misunderstanding. Because of increased intercultural contact and interdependence, people in the world are ...
Developing Second and Foreign Language Reading Fluency and its Effect on Comprehension:A Missing Link
Foreign Language Reading Fluency Missing Link
2009/8/19
Reading fluency has been a major concern in reading research and education in English L1
settings for the past three decades. Extensive research has explored various types of
instructional methods t...
Developing reading fluency in EFL:How assisted repeated reading and extensive reading affect fluency development
repeated reading assisted repeated reading extensive reading reading fluency reading comprehension
2009/8/6
Extensive research on reading in a first language has shown the critical role fluency plays in successful reading. Fluency alone, however, does not guarantee successful reading. Cognitive and metacogn...