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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Speaking proficiency"”.
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Exploring the Role of Vocabulary in EFL Learners’ Speaking Proficiency: A Mixed Methods Study
Vocabulary occupies an essential place in speaking. Previous research has examined the vocabulary–speaking link by exploring lexical features and characteristics in spoken discourses, investigating the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and oral proficiency, and inspecting the association …
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A triple case study of two Saudi and one Italian language learners' self-perceptions of target language (TL) speaking proficiency
… Italian English language learner (ELL) came to speaking proficiency according to his or her own perceptions and observations. The researcher conducted interviews of the two Saudi ELLs face-to-face and the one Italian ELL through Skype by asking 15 open-ended questions related to their English …
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Mapping the Internalization of Parts of Speech in the Spoken Interlanguage of Adult American Learners of Russian from Level 1 to Level 3
… The data was collected from 47 recorded Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) at the Intermediate Mid, Intermediate High, Advanced Low, Advanced Mid, Advanced High, and Superior levels of speaking proficiency, administered by ACTFL certified testers in the context of the American Councils of …
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THE EFFECTS OF EXPLICIT FORM-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION ON L2 ORAL PROFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT
… students 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 …
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Learning in the videoconferencing context: examining L2 learner engagement in speaking tasks during private English-law lessons
… and TBLT (Task-based language teaching) speaking component of private Skype-based law lessons (in English) delivered to three pairs of English language learners. The first pair were two Korean middle school students located in South Korea, the second pair were two Korean lawyers in South …
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Developing Social Networks and Language Learning: Japanese ESL Students in a Study Abroad Context
… 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 English along with …
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The Effect Of Using Board Games In Reducing Language Anxiety And Improving Oral Performance
… language (ESL) learners 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 …
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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 decades. …
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Classroom based performance-feedback influencing advanced English I students´ speaking skill in the target Language at the Foreign Language Department of the University of El Salvador
… feedback and the influence on students’ speaking skill in the Target Language at the Advanced Intensive English I courses at the Foreign Language Department of the University of El Salvador. The study showed a correlation between Classroom-based performance feedback and students´ speaking …
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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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The Influence of Dual Language Education Upon the Development of English Reading Skills of Kindergarten Through Grade Two Students
… reading ability for all students with English speaking proficiency in all grade levels for all years. This research study implies there was a significant positive change in the overall reading ability of predominantly non-White and female students in either program who were also in grade 1. …
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Investigating oral performance on controlled versus spontaneous speaking tasks: Implications for second language pedagogy and assessment
Assessment tasks of second language (L2) proficiency can be loosely classified into controlled and spontaneous tasks. While spontaneous tasks are widely accepted as authentic proficiency instruments, they can be time-consuming and labor-intensive to develop, administer, and score. In contrast, …
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The effect of genre-based instruction on academic speech
Developing speaking proficiency in English has been highly demanded in the field of English education in Japan; however, teaching speaking in academic settings is difficult because of its complex nature. Many Japanese high school students cannot organize their spoken production coherently because …
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Nouns and classificatory verbs in Enga (New Guinea) : a semantic study
… among the Enga and had attained a fair degree of speaking proficiency in the language, and secondly, that a considerable amount of linguistic and ethnographic work had already been done on the Enga. This is a semantic study. It arose out of my previous interest in ethnoscience and because of this …
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Nouns and classificatory verbs in Enga (New Guinea) : a semantic study
… among the Enga and had attained a fair degree of speaking proficiency in the language, and secondly, that a considerable amount of linguistic and ethnographic work had already been done on the Enga. This is a semantic study. It arose out of my previous interest in ethnoscience and because of this …