Second Language Fluency: Judgments on Different Tasks

By Tracey M. Derwing, Marian J. Rossiter, Murray J. Munro, Ron I. Thomson. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

Using Listener Judgments to Investigate Linguistic Influences on L2 Comprehensibility and Accentedness: A Validation and Generalization Study (2015, methodology): “In particular, they show that, for listeners, the extent of accentedness or perceived nativelikeness is likely determined mostly by the accuracy of segmental and word stress production, rather than by how fluent the speech sounds (see also Derwing et al. 2004).”
Language awareness and second language pronunciation: a classroom study (2010, neutral): “Fluency denotes listeners’ assessments of how smoothly and rapidly an utterance is spoken ( Derwing, Rossiter, Munro, & Thomson, 2004 ).”
Linguistic skills and speaking fluency in a second language (2012, background): “Derwing et al. (2004) collected speech samples from 20 beginner Mandarin learners of English.”
Impact of Rater Characteristics and Prosodic Features of Speaker Accentedness on Ratings of International Teaching Assistants' Oral Performance (2012, methodology): “Once signed on, raters first listened to a practice speech sample to acclimate them to the rating task ( Derwing, Rossiter, Munro, & Thomson, 2004 ).”
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN L1 FLUENCY AND L2 FLUENCY DEVELOPMENT (2009, methodology): “This approach helped to ensure comparable content across all speakers (Derwing et al., 2004 ; Munro, Derwing, & Morton, 2006 ).”
Disentangling accent from comprehensibility (2012, methodology): “…all based on prior research linking some of these measures to different aspects of speech, including accent, comprehensibility, and intelligibility (Albrechtsen et al., 1980; AndersonHsieh et al., 1992; Derwing et al., 2004; Fayer & Krasinski, 1987; Munro & Derwing, 1999; Varonis & Gass, 1982).”
LINGUISTIC DIMENSIONS OF COMPREHENSIBILITY AND PERCEIVED FLUENCY: AN INVESTIGATION OF COMPLEXITY, ACCURACY, AND FLUENCY IN SECOND LANGUAGE ARGUMENTATIVE SPEECH (2019, methodology): “After familiarizing the raters with the elicitation task to avoid familiarity bias (see Derwing et al., 2004; Rossiter, 2009), they listened to three recordings to practice using the rating scale.”
Spoken fluency revisited (2010, background): “The Oxford English Dictionary, which attests the use of fluent in relation to speech as far back as 1589, defines it as: ‘flowing easily and readily from the tongue or pen’.”
What makes speech sound fluent? The contributions of pauses, speed and repairs (2013, background): “Since the discussed literature (e.g. Cucchiarini, Strik & Boves, 2002; Derwing et al., 2004; Kormos & Dénes, 2004; Rossiter, 2009) mainly found speed and pause measures to be related to fluency ratings, it is expected that both breakdown and speed fluency are primary factors influencing fluency…”
Exploring the relationship between productive vocabulary knowledge and second language oral ability (2019, background): “Derwing et al. (2004) demonstrated that L2 learners’ comprehensibility and fluency scores were rated more positively in monologue- and dialogue-based tasks than in a picture-narrative task.”