A Longitudinal Study of ESL Learners' Fluency and Comprehensibility Development.

By Tracey M. Derwing, Murray J. Munro, Ron I. Thomson. 2007

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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The Effectiveness of Drama as an Instructional Approach for the Development of Second Language Oral Fluency, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness (2017, methodology): “Similar methodology had been used in previous studies (Derwing et al., 2004, 2008; Munro et al., 2006).”
Does a Speaking Task Affect Second Language Comprehensibility (2015, methodology): “…prepared for analysis by matching peak amplitude across files, removing all initial fillers and false starts, and then editing down all files to the initial 30 seconds of speech produced, in line with prior research using 20–60 second recordings for listener judgments (e.g., Derwing et al., 2008).”
The relationship between second language competence and willingness to communicate: the moderating effect of foreign language anxiety (2020, background): “…WTC, more attention should be paid to EFL learners’ listening and speaking development, especially so for Chinese EFL learners who have been overshadowed by the deep-rooted tradition of FL education oriented towards the mastery of grammatical rules and vocabulary (Derwing et al, 2007; Shi, 2008).”
Second Language Comprehensibility Revisited: Investigating the Effects of Learner Background (2015, methodology): “And in a longitudinal study comparing speech ratings of Mandarin and Slavic L2 learners of English, Derwing, Munro, and Thomson (2008) found that, although both groups had equal proficiency levels at the COMPREHENSIBILITY REVISITED 5 outset of the study, only the Slavic group improved over time, imp”
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN L1 FLUENCY AND L2 FLUENCY DEVELOPMENT (2009, methodology): “Here, we extend our previous research (Derwing et al., 2004 , 2008 ; Derwing, Thomson, & Munro, 2006 ) to explore the relationship between L1 and L2 fl uency.”
LINGUISTIC DIMENSIONS OF COMPREHENSIBILITY AND PERCEIVED FLUENCY: AN INVESTIGATION OF COMPLEXITY, ACCURACY, AND FLUENCY IN SECOND LANGUAGE ARGUMENTATIVE SPEECH (2019, background): “…a large overlap between comprehensibility and fluency judgements, a pairedsample t-test showed a weak, but significant difference between the scores, revealing that inexperienced native listeners tended to assign more generous scores to comprehensibility than to fluency (Derwing et al., 2008).”