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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Oral English"”.
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Enhancing Chinese EFL Learners' Oral English Through Multimedia
… teachers to use communicative practices in the English classroom. Based on Communicative Language Learning, this project uses many authentic materials, like videos, speaking activities, which could help develop students’ oral proficiencies. The discussion activities and partner speaking …
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Analysis of individual oral instruments for testing oral english proficiency
… research work focuses on the analysis of oral individual instruments for testing oral English proficiency such as the oral presentation, oral interview and oral performance. This topic is very important because every university student studying the Bachelor in English degree has to be …
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THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK, AFFECT, AND ORAL ENGLISH IMPROVEMENT
… study was to examine not only how teachers’ oral corrective feedback (CF) interacted with students’ affective variables (anxiety, attitude, motivation, and self-confidence) to affect how advanced-level ESL students learned oral English, but also how these students’ prior experiences of …
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A Comparative Study of the Methods Employed in the Teaching of Oral English
… with the methods employed in the teaching of Oral English in the secondary schools. Material for this study has boon secured from several books, magazines, educational journals, personal letters, and questionnaires. As a basis of what a good course in Oral English should be several letters …
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Analyzing lexical features to predict Indian ITAs’ performance in a university oral English assessment
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Exploring Academic Acculturation Experiences of Chinese International Students with Low Oral English Proficiency: A Musically Enhanced Narrative Inquiry
… they are also the group with the lowest spoken English scores. Studies have demonstrated that oral English capacity significantly influences international students’ academic acculturation. However, little is known about the lived academic acculturation experiences of Chinese international …
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Developing Adults' Oral English Communicative Competence in an EFL Environment: Collaborative Studies of a Chinese EFL Teacher and Her Students
… career and academic incentives to develop their oral English communicative competence; however, at the secondary level, students study English mainly for the purpose of written tests. As a result, their oral English learning is largely overlooked. In addition, significant challenges exist for …
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Analyzing the influence of utterance fluency across assessed speaking profiles in the oral English placement test at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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The Development of an Oral Test to Assess the English Proficiency of Bilingual Teachers
The purpose of this study is to develop an oral English proficiency test and administer it to a pilot group of students.
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Assessing the Parallelism of Four SPEAK Test Forms
… believed to exist in the construct ""oral English proficiency"" might be statistically determined through detailed analyses of rater behavior and examinee responses rather than through analyses of holistic test scores."
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Developing the English oral competency of tourism industry students by means of a genre-based ESP approach
… theory-based process for the improvement of the English oral competency of Thai tourism industry students and determine how far practical needs superseded theoretical demands. It was done firstly, by examining an, blending genre and ESP theories in order to establish a genre-based ESP oral …
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Relationships between lexical proficiency and L2 oral proficiency
… Also, few studies have focused on how non-native English speakers with different L1 backgrounds differently or similarly develop lexical proficiency in L2 speaking. Based on this background, the present study is conducted with three purposes: 1) to compare the effectiveness of measures of lexical …
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Disentangling fluency, comprehensibility and coherence: Toward a better understanding of oral proficiency profiles
… proficiency components assessed by the Oral English Proficiency Test (OEPT) in order to help build empirical foundations for establishing OEPT profiles. Silent and filled pauses, false starts and repetitions were removed from 50 test recordings in WAVEPAD SOUND EDITOR. Five trained OEPT …
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What Registers in the Body: Place and the Physicality of Painting
… technology or digital formats for native English speakers, addressing the twenty-first century skills for English language learners have been absent. Given that the present global society is drivenon bilingualism and multilingualism, English language learners need to be given the equitable …
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Flipgrid and Second Language Acquisition Using Flipgrid to Promote Speaking Skills for English Language Learners
… technology or digital formats for native English speakers, addressing the twenty-first century skills for English language learners have been absent. Given that the present global society is driven on bilingualism and multilingualism, English language learners need to be given the …
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It is "broken" and "accented": Non-native English-speaking (NNES) Graduate Students' Perceptions toward NNES Instructors' English
… study investigates the perceptions of non-native English-speaking graduate students towards non-native English speaking (NNES) instructors’ accented English. Students (N=161) who were enrolled in an oral English course at Purdue University participated in a survey. Follow-up interviews were …
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Developing Social Networks and Language Learning: Japanese ESL Students in a Study Abroad Context
… study investigates the relationship between the English language proficiency of Japanese students in a short term study abroad (SA) context and the structure of their social networks. Their personal social networks were investigated through individual interviews. Analyzing their investment in …
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Understanding children’s causal reasoning during collaborative discussions
… students who were more talkative, had better oral English, and were more liked by their classmates were more likely to produce causal chains. The turn-by-turn analysis of chain construction revealed that once a causal chain was initiated, it was likely to continue for at least three speaking …
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Ethnographic descriptions of English corners in Shanghai
This study explored the phenomenon of English Comers (EC) in Shanghai. These are informal communities formed for the purpose of practising English. In 1978, just after the death of Mao Ze Dong and the fall of the 'gang of four', many eager Chinese people gathered together to practise their oral …
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