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- Title
Second Language Fluency: Judgments on Different Tasks.
- Authors
Derwing, Tracey M.; Rossiter, Marian J.; Munro, Murray J.; Thomson, Ron I.
- Abstract
In this study the authors determined whether untrained raters' assessments of fluency in low-proficiency second language speech were related to temporal measures and whether they varied across tasks. Speech samples were collected from 20 beginner Mandarin learners of English on picture description, monologue, and dialogue tasks. Temporal measures were made on each sample. Twenty-eight untrained judges rated fluency, comprehensibility, and accentedness. Three trained raters also judged samples for goodness of prosody. The rating data paralleled the speech measurements.
- Subjects
FLUENCY (Language learning); SECOND language acquisition; LANGUAGE acquisition; FOREIGN language education
- Publication
Language Learning, 2004, Vol 54, Issue 4, p655
- ISSN
0023-8333
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9922.2004.00282.x