SPEAKING ACCURACY, FLUENCY, AND BEYOND: INDONESIAN VOCATIONAL STUDENTS’ VOICES

The Impressibility of Speaking Accuracy/Fluency among EFL Undergraduates: A Meta-Analysis

This meta-analysis is an investigation into the impressibility of two dimensions of the speaking skill, namely accuracy and fluency, in relation to the experimented treatments among Iranian EFL undergraduates. Having surveyed a collected bank of 74 research reports, the relationships among the variables in the 14 included studies were examined. More specifically, the analysis involved a statist...

TOEFL iBT integrated speaking tests: a comparison of test-takers' performance in terms of complexity, accuracy, and fluency

This study compares three integrated tasks of the TOEFL iBT speaking subtest in terms of complexity, accuracy, and fluency. To this end, a group of TOEFL iBT Iranian candidates took a simulated TOEFL iBT some days prior to their real exam. The collected oral responses were first transcribed and then quantified using software such as ‘Syllable Counter’ and ‘Coh-Metrix3’ for fluency and complexit...

Reading Fluency beyond English: Investigations into Reading Fluency in Turkish Elementary Students

Reading fluency is one of the underlying factors of successful language curricula and it is also one of the defining characteristics of good readers. A lack of fluency is a common characteristic of struggling readers. There is a growing body of research that demonstrates proficiency in reading fluency is important for success in learning to read English. While the role of reading fluency is inc...

Discrimination between singing and speaking voices

eCIRCUS: building voices for autonomous speaking agents

This paper describes our work integrating automatic speech generation into a virtual environment where autonomous agents are enabled to interact by natural spoken language. The application intents to address bullying problems for children aged 9-12 in the UK and Germany by presenting improvised dramas and by asking the user to act as an “invisible friend” of the victimised character. As we are ...