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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Oral Performance"”.
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Allocation of attention in EFL learners' oral performance across multiple task repetitions
… to language aspects (e.g., fluency) in their oral performance. Furthermore, researchers have explored learners’ attention during strategic planning through emergent categorization, from retrospective data (e.g., Ortega, 2005). The latter has focused on learners’ uptake, based on incorporation …
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The Effect Of Using Board Games In Reducing Language Anxiety And Improving Oral Performance
… feel anxiety about speaking English, and their oral performance is affected in this situation. This study aims to determine the effect of using board games on the improvement of ESL students’ oral performance. Task-based instruction and communicative approaches to pedagogy were used for the …
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Investigating oral performance on controlled versus spontaneous speaking tasks: Implications for second language pedagogy and assessment
… tasks are highly predictive of spontaneous performance, the question remains as to whether the two types of tasks measure similar kinds of language use (i.e., construct). To address this concern, this study examines characteristics of performance regarding both the product and process of …
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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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An Analysis of the Relationship between Written and Oral Performances on the Spanish Proficiency Exam
… to investigate the relationship between written performance and oral performance on the Spanish Proficiency Exam which is administered to candidates in the Bilingual Multicultural Program at the State University of New York, College at Brockport. Due to the sequence of the exams, the researcher …
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda
… (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in oral performance cultures may have had mnemonic functions and likely closely resembled real performance, which lends further validity and benefit to this project. This report begins with an examination of the relevant scholarly literature on oaths …
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An examination of the effectiveness of an oral communication apprehension reduction program in an ESL class for graduate student
Oral performance skills are essential to success in graduate school. However, many non-native students indicate a lack of confidence when speaking English. This anxiety may cause avoidance or poor performance. Given this situation, would a communication apprehension (CA) reduction program like …
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English oral proficiency of grade 12 learners in selected private and public schools in Gauteng.
… for the difference in the level of the English oral proficiency of Grade 12 English Second Language learners in selected private and public schools in Gauteng. The difference in the level of English language proficiency is observed to be caused by a number of sociolinguistic factors exerting an …
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The emergence of group stress in medieval French
… verse, in particular texts associated with oral performance, is shown to have an iambic rhythmic tendency in the pre-1250 period, which is particularly strong in the earliest texts. No such effect is found in lyric texts or plays, or in narrative from after 1250. Additionally, a phonological …
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Il progetto e la sorpresa. Giuseppe Pontiggia critico e saggista tra metodo, verifica e retorica
… different textual regimes—highly revised prose, oral performance transcriptions, and contingent public interventions— while testing how stable those ideas remain when stylistic control loosens. Methodologically, the thesis combines literary-historical reconstruction, narratological tools, and— …
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The Protest Song: Bridge Leadership, Sonic Innovation, And The Long Civil Rights Movement
… of lyrical expressions, musical aesthetics, and performance practices that sought to articulate feminist identities inside the long black freedom movement, harnessing the power of music to push for a broader and simultaneous liberation from racial and gendered oppression. While the project …
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DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH ORAL PROFICIENCY AMONG JAPANESE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
… that investigated the development of English oral proficiency—complexity, accuracy, and fluency—under the pre-task and on-line planning conditions with task repetition among Japanese high school students. This study is unique because it is longitudinal and includes qualitative data. The …
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A case study of Tracie Morris's Project Princess
… investigate Project Princess as page poetry and oral performance text anchored in the genealogy of spoken word poetry. The following research questions guided this study: How does intertextuality function in Tracie Morris’s spoken word poem Project Princess? What role does the genealogy of spoken …
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Exploring the Role of Vocabulary in EFL Learners’ Speaking Proficiency: A Mixed Methods Study
… relationship between vocabulary knowledge and oral proficiency, and inspecting the association between lexical richness and speaking. However, little attempt has been made to integrate these approaches. This three-phase mixed-methods research aimed to resolve the complexities regarding the …
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The [un]knowing director: a critical examination of directing within the context of devising performance
… of directing within the context of devising performance practice. It emanates from my need to make sense of the particular ways in which I work as a theatre director who engages with devising performance coupled with an identified lack in the literature that speaks to directing and devising …
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Workshop Theatre in South Africa in the 1980s : a critical examination with specific reference to power, orality and the carnivalesque
… within poststructuralist critical theory; orality and the oral tradition; and the carnivalesque as it is conceived of in the writing of Mikhail Bakhtin. Chapter One is a general introduction to the dissertation. In Part I of the study, it is argued that workshop theatre forms part of a …