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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Oral proficiency"”.
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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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Promoting oral proficiency through art-making in grade R
… barriers to learning because of limited English proficiency. This may significantly delay or sometimes even permanently impede learners' academic development (De Witt, Lessing, & Dicker, 1998). It is therefore important that learners can function in the LoLT if they are to master the skills …
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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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THE EFFECTS OF EXPLICIT FORM-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION ON L2 ORAL PROFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT
… during a seven-week intervention. Speaking proficiency development is a continuous challenge for most EFL learners who have limited exposure to the target language outside the classroom. Within the communicative language teaching paradigm, task-based language learning (TBLT) has been …
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Effect of the affordances of a virtual environment on second language oral proficiency
… a weekly conversation hour focusing on improving oral proficiency. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the effect of two different types of conversation hours, face-to-face and virtual, on the oral proficiency levels of students enrolled in intermediate Spanish classes at …
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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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Speaker Investment, Social Networks and Oral Proficiency of Heritage and Classroom Learners of Spanish
… 2018; Norton, 1995, 2010) in shaping the oral proficiency of heritage speakers and classroom learners of Spanish. My research questions are as follows: (1) What impact, if any, does the number of Spanish speakers in a speaker’s social network have on the oral proficiency of heritage and …
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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 relevance of teachers' non-English oral proficiency to their metalinguistic and register awareness of English
This doctoral study investigated whether and the extent to which oral proficiency with limited or no literacy skills in a non-English language promoted native English-speaking (NES) and nonnative English-speaking (NNES) English language teachers' metalinguistic and register awareness of English. …
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A case study of Emirati females and an international EFL oral proficiency test: Does one size fit all?
… through interpretive case study research of oral interview assessment in a female campus of a tertiary college in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). CAT (Communication Accommodation Theory) was the theoretical tool used to examine the interaction between examiners and candidates during the IEL …
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A Technology-Mediated Tool (FiF) and Foreign Language Learners: DevelopingEFL Learners’ Oral Proficiency at a Chinese Higher Vocational College
… Tool (FiF) on the development of English oral proficiency of EFL students in higher vocational colleges in China. The research began with a survey of students' attitudes towards the technology-mediated tool, and then a 20-week experimental follow-up study was conducted. During the research …
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Topic development in the English oral proficiency interview for international teaching assistants at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
… Teaching Assistant (ITA) candidate’s oral proficiency in an unscripted interview test. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) had employed SPEAK (Speaking Proficiency English Assessment Kit), a computer-mediated test, to assess ITA candidates’ speaking ability for …
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Foreign Language Student Anxiety and Expected Testing Method: Face-to-Face Versus Computer Mediated Testing
… ways to reduce this anxiety is a key factor. Oral proficiency is the main goal for both students and instructors. The communicative approach is the main teaching focus. Therefore, testing for proficiency should be part of the curriculum. However, many professors do not test in this way, one of …
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Gaining Proficiency in French Through Service Learning: An Action Research Project with Secondary French Students in California and Secondary Students in a French School in France
… world language classroom is integral to gaining oral proficiency in the target language. Service learning helps students to see the practical application of the language and it increases student motivation. In many high schools, students have limited opportunities to engage in authentic …
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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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Case Studies of Turkish Children's Literacy and Oral Language Development in English as a Second Language
… more difficult for them. The students' English oral language and literacy abilities showed a negative relationship, where oral proficiency did not lead to literacy acquisition in the second language. Alp lacked phonological awareness, over-relied on word memorization strategies and remained a …
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Factors that intervene in students oral language proficiency when learning english and french at the same time after the completion of the sixth terms of the development area subjects, semester I-2017, in the Modern Languages major at The Foreign Languages Department of The University of El Salvador.
… difficulties when developing the necessary oral linguistic abilities to succeed in the acquisition of a second language. Therefore, this research focused on the factors that intervene in students’ oral language proficiency when learning English and French at the same time after the …
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How Classroom Questioning Influences Second Language Acquisition
English proficiency influenced student questioning in terms of the types, frequency, domain, and target audience. Moreover, proficiency influenced teachers' questioning practices as well. Other factors, such as students' relative oral proficiency within the class, attitudes toward speaking in …
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ESL students' perceptions of role-play activities
… recognized several benefits (e.g., improving oral proficiency, acquiring vocabulary, and rehearsing for real-life communication) while also acknowledging some limitations such as artificiality and lack of vocabulary and ideas.
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The Effect of Dynamic Assessment on Adult Learners of Arabic: A Mixed-Method Study at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
… in tutoring settings. However, they did not use proficiency-based rubrics to measure students' progress and did not mention the method of using DA practically in classrooms. The literature showed that task-based language instruction (TBLI) is effective in adult classrooms. This study combined DA …
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