Exploring measures and perceptions of fluency in the speech of second language learners.

By Judit Kormos, M. Denes. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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Content familiarity, task repetition and Chinese EFL learners’ engagement in second language use (2017, methodology): “The oral discourses were transcribed in their unpruned forms following the conventions of Kormos and Dénes’ (2004) transcription system for spoken words, pause time and filled pauses.”
What makes speech sound fluent? The contributions of pauses, speed and repairs (2013, background): “…previous work suggests that the measure mean length of run correlates with raters’ perceptions of fluency (Cucchiarini, Strik & Boves, 2002; Kormos & Dénes, 2004), but because this measure is dependent on the number of pauses in speech it actually combines both speed and breakdown fluency.”
Praat script to detect syllable nuclei and measure speech rate automatically (2009, methodology): “…the speaking ru-brics of the TOEFL test as reported on the ETS Web site [Educational Testing Service, 2004]) and second language research (e.g., Kormos & Dénes, 2004), as well as in the diagnosis of different language and speech disorders ( Feyereisen et al., 1991; Redmond, 2004; Shenker,…”
Suprasegmental Measures of Accentedness and Judgments of Language Learner Proficiency in Oral English (2010, methodology): “In previous studies, by the same token, advanced and lowintermediate learners of English were not distinguishable on the basis of temporal feaures such as number of filled pauses or mean length of filled pauses (Kang, 2008; Kormos & Denes, 2004).”
Complexity, accuracy and fluency in second language acquisition (2009, background): “Language researchers for their part have mainly analyzed oral production data to determine exactly which quantifiable linguistic phenomena contribute to fluency in L2 speech (e.g. Lennon 1990; Kormos and Dénes 2004; Cucchiarini, Strik and Boves 2002; Towell, Hawkins and Bazergui 1996).”
Fluency Training in the ESL Classroom: An Experimental Study of Fluency Development and Proceduralization (2011, background): “Kormos and Dénes (2004) found that mean the first three of these measures were good predictors of fluency ratings by native and non-native speaker judges, although articulation rate was not.”
Impact of Rater Characteristics and Prosodic Features of Speaker Accentedness on Ratings of International Teaching Assistants' Oral Performance (2012, methodology): “Not surprisingly, speech rate—including variables such as the mean length of utterance and phonation time ratio—predicts ratings of fluency among NSSs (Kormos & Dénes, 2004).”
English Pronunciation and Fluency Development in Mandarin and Slavic Speakers. (2006, background): “Although many salient features of L2 accents do not interfere with intelligibility, some factors, such as incorrect stress assignment, have been shown to have deleterious consequences ( Hahn, 2004 ).”
LINGUISTIC DIMENSIONS OF COMPREHENSIBILITY AND PERCEIVED FLUENCY: AN INVESTIGATION OF COMPLEXITY, ACCURACY, AND FLUENCY IN SECOND LANGUAGE ARGUMENTATIVE SPEECH (2019, background): “…are applied to investigate which aspects of speech contribute to holistic constructs of oral proficiency such as comprehensibility (Saito, Webb, et al., 2016; Trofimovich & Isaacs, 2012), perceived fluency (Kormos & Dénes, 2004), and functional adequacy (Révész, Ekiert, & Torgersen, 2016).”
Speaking rate and information content in English lingua franca oral presentations (2010, methodology): “In the figure the speakers are ordered according to the MLR in L2, which has been shown to correlate best with ratings of fluency (Kormos & Dénes, 2004; Towell et al., 1996).”
The Role of Task Complexity, Modality, and Aptitude in Narrative Task Performance (2012, background): “The measure of fluency was speech rate, which has been shown to be a reliable measure of fluency (Kormos & Dénes, 2004).”
Fluency in Second Language Testing: Insights From Different Disciplines (2018, methodology): “But as the additional analyses on the data from Kormos and Dénes (2004) have shown, because of multicollinearity, any of these reported relations may in fact have been spurious relations.”
Native speakers’ perceptions of fluency and accent in L2 speech (2014, background): “Several studies (e.g., Cucchiarini, Strik, & Bovis, 2002; Derwing et al., 2004; Kormos & Dénes, 2004; Rossiter, 2009; Ferrer, 2011) reported that pausing phenomena (i.e., breakdown fluency) and speech rate are primary factors correlating with fluency ratings.”
Functional adequacy in L2 writing: Towards a new rating scale (2017, background): “With regard to fluency, there appears to be an ideal rate of syllables per second, beyond which comprehension is affected (Kormos & Dénes, 2004).”
Spoken fluency revisited (2010, background): “…location, distribution and duration of pauses, the regularity and smoothness of tempo and allied issues (Fillmore, 1979; Dechert, 1980; Towell, 1987; Towell et al., 1996; Lennon, 1990; Riggenbach, 1991; Freed, 1995; Kormos and Dénes, 2004; Wolf, 2008; Mochizuki and Ortega, 2008; Rossiter, 2009).”