Search results for "oral proficiency"
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Processing limitations in L2 fluency: Analysis of inaccuracies in lexical access
2017
Oral fluency is widely included in second language assessments, but its relationship to language proficiency is not straightforward. In the current study, data gathered in an experimental setting were examined with an exploratory fluency analysis. The aim was to examine the relationship between fluency of lexical access and proficiency in foreign language (L2). Fluency of the lexical access was studied by analysing inaccuracies in one word recognition and one word retrieval task. To see if proficiency had an effect on the number and the type of inaccuracies, lexical access tasks were carried out for 563 Finnish school children from grades 4, 8, and 11 in their L2 (English). Proficiency in L…
”Ai dount vant tu saund laik Mika Häkkinen” : Finnish Upper Secondary School Students Perceptions on English Pronunciation
2010
Englannin kielellisen kompetenssin ja ääntämisen merkitys on kasvanut niin työelämässä kuin yhteiskunnassamme yleisesti. Aiempi aihetta koskeva tutkimus on keskittynyt suomalaisten kielitaidon ja kieliasenteiden kartoittamiseen sekä lukiolaisten käsityksiin suullisen kielitaidon opettamisesta. Suullista kielitaitoa on kuitenkin tutkittu yllättävän vähän verrattuna muihin kielen osa-alueisiin. Suullisen kielitaidon merkitystä nyky-yhteiskunnassa ei kuitenkaan tulisi vähätellä ja siksi tutkimusta aiheesta tulisi lisätä. Tämä tutkimus keskittyy yleisen suullisen kielitaidon sijaan tarkemmin ääntämiseen siksi, että ääntämyksellä on suuri vaikutus puheen sujuvuuteen, ymmärrettävyyteen sekä ensi…
"Voi ei, nää on tosi hyviä verrattuna muhun!" : uudenlaisen arviointimenetelmän toimivuus ranskan suullisen kielitaidon itsearvioinnissa
2013
Teaching and learning oral skills in Finnish upper secondary school : a study of students' and teachers' views on oral skills education
2013
Suullisen kielitaidon opetusta sekä sen asemaa lukion englannin kielen opinnoissa on tutkittu enimmäkseen opettajien näkökulmasta. Tämän tutkielman tarkoitus oli tutkia, millaisten harjoitusten kautta suullista kielitaitoa opetetaan ja opetellaan lukioissa, sekä millaiset suulliset harjoitukset opiskelijat ja opettajat kokevat mieluisimmiksi ja hyödyllisimmiksi oppimisen kannalta. Lisäksi tässä tutkimuksessa selvitettiin, millainen status suullisella kielitaidolla nykyään on lukion englannin kielen opinnoissa, ja keskitytäänkö suullisen kielitaidon opettamiseen tarpeeksi. Tutkimuksen kohderyhmänä olivat englannin kielen lukio-opettajat sekä toisen vuositason opiskelijat Keski-Suomen ja Itä-…
Second language comprehensibility and accentedness across oral proficiency levels : A comparison of two L1s
2021
Second language comprehensibility and accentedness are highly complex phenomena, and numerous studies have been conducted to better understand these constructs. However, research has seldom addressed L2 comprehensibility and accentedness in relation to speakers' proficiency in the target language. This study explores L2 English comprehensibility and accentedness across three proficiency levels. The speakers were 60 teenaged Finns, half of them speaking Finnish as their L1 and half speaking Finland-Swedish as their L1. Using 20-s speech samples, the comprehensibility and accentedness of the speakers were rated by 34 English-speaking teenagers on a 9-point scale. Comparisons were made regardi…
Oppilaiden käsityksiä englannin suullisesta kielitaidosta, sen oppimisesta ja arvioinnista
2018
This study investigated Finnish pupils’ beliefs about English oral proficiency, its learning and assessment in order to give voice to the pupils themselves as well as to better understand their views on English oral proficiency. The data consisted of nine semistructured interviews and self-evaluations and peer evaluations of nine 9th graders from three Finnish basic education schools. The study was qualitative in its nature, and the data were mainly analysed using content analysis. The results showed that the pupils understood English oral proficiency as an ability to speak and interact intelligibly in English. The most important components were seen to be pronunciation, vocabulary and gram…
Oral proficiency in second and third foreign languages in the Danish education system
2019
In this paper, we analyze how oral proficiency is understood in the Danish education system in the three biggest second/third foreign languages taught in the country: French, Spanish and German. We adopt a comparative perspective and analyze how orality is addressed in these language subjects at primary school, secondary school and university levels. We compare the three languages to find similarities and differences, focusing on learning objectives, pedagogical approaches and examination forms, presented in the official curricula for each of the three educational levels. We relate the Danish stance on oral proficiency to current international research in the field and to European tendencie…
Frequency Change Patterns across Proficiency Levels in Japanese EFL Learner Speech
2014
This study investigated the overall patterns of variation across seven oral proficiency levels of 1,263 Japanese EFL learners and native English speakers. The methodological approach combined a learner corpus, language processing techniques, and multivariate statistical analyses to identify patterns of language use. The largest spoken learner corpus in Japan, the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Japanese Learner English (NICT JLE) Corpus was used for the analysis. This corpus consists of transcribed interviews with 1,281 learners and contains over one million running words of spoken English. The transcriptions were compared with data gathered from 20 native En…