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Second language fluency: judgments on different tasks. Language learning (2004).
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Derwing, Tracey M. Rossiter, Marian J. Munro, Murray J. Thomson, Ron I. Derwing, Tracey Rossiter, Marian |
| Abstract | In this study we determined whether untrained raters’ assessments of fluency in low-proficiency second language speech were related to temporal measures and whether they varied across tasks. We collected speech samples from 20 beginner Mandarin learners of English on picture description, monologue, and dialogue tasks. Temporal measures were made on each sample. Twenty-eight untrained judges rated fluency, comprehensibility, and accentedness. Three trained raters also judged samples for ‘‘goodness of prosody.’ ’ The rating data paralleled the |
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| Publisher Date | 2004-01-01 |
| Publisher Department | Department Of Educational |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Second Language Fluency Different Task Temporal Measure Speech Sample Rating Data Picture Description Beginner Mandarin Learner Untrained Raters Assessment Dialogue Task Twenty-eight Untrained Judge Low-proficiency Second Language Speech Trained Raters |
| Content Type | Text |
