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Validating speaking test rating scales through microanalysis of fluency using PRAAT
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Aspects of fluency across assessed levels of speaking proficiency
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Aspects of fluency across assessed levels of speaking proficiency
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Recent research in second language acquisition suggests that a number of speed, breakdown, repair and composite measures reliably assess fluency and predict proficiency. However, there is little research evidence to indicate which measures best characterize fluency at each assessed level of proficiency, and which can consistently distinguish one level from the next. This study investigated fluency in 32 speakers’ performing four tasks of the British Council’s Aptis Speaking test, which were awarded four different levels of proficiency (CEFR A2-C1). Using PRAAT, the performances were analysed for various aspects of utterance fluency across different levels of proficiency. The results suggest that speed and composite measures consistently distinguish fluency from the lowest to upper-intermediate levels (A2-B2), and many breakdown measures differentiate between the lowest level (A2) and the rest of the proficiency groups, with a few differentiating between lower (A2, B1) and higher levels (B2, C1). The varied use of repair measures at different levels suggest that a more complex process is at play. The findings imply that a detailed micro-analysis of fluency offers a more reliable understanding of the construct and its relationship with assessment of proficiency. ; The British Council Assessment Research Awards and Grants programme 2016
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language assessment; language testing; speaking; X162 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12620
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/623352
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Is fluency being ‘neglected’ in the classroom? Teacher understanding of fluency and related classroom practices
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Fluency development in the ESL classroom: The impact of immediate task repetition and procedural repetition on learners’ oral fluency
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Scoring validity of the Aptis speaking test : investigating fluency across tasks and levels of proficiency
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Scoring validity of the Aptis Speaking test: investigating fluency across tasks and levels of proficiency
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When it’s not what you do but the way that you do it: How research into second language acquisition can help teachers make the most of their classroom materials.
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