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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Oral English proficiency"”.
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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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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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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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Relationships between lexical proficiency and L2 oral proficiency
<p>Lexical proficiency is strongly correlated with L2 productive language ability (Crossley, Salsbury, & McNamara, 2011; Laufer & Nation, 1995). While many studies have investigated the relationship between lexical proficiency and L2 writing ability, not many studies have been conducted in terms of …
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Disentangling fluency, comprehensibility and coherence: Toward a better understanding of oral proficiency profiles
… possible disfluency markers can help disentangle 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 …
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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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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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Measuring fluency: Temporal variables and pausing patterns in L2 English speech
<p>This paper examines temporal variables and pausing patterns in L2 English speech to investigate fluency as a measurable component of oral proficiency. Fluency can be defined as ‘speed and smoothness of oral delivery’. We can measure the speed of oral delivery through calculating temporal …