Abstract The current study examined the extent to which cognitive fluency (CF) contributes utterance (UF) at level of constructs. A total 128 Japanese-speaking learners English completed four speaking tasks—argumentative task, picture narrative reading-to-speaking and reading-while-listening-to-speaking task—and a battery linguistic knowledge tests, capturing vocabulary size, lexical retrieval ...

Researchers have extensively studied phenomena that affect a second language learner’s oral production while there is scant evidence about input-related factors. Accordingly, the present study sought to investigate how variation in oral production is caused by the input they receive from different course materials. To this end, the study included a micro-evaluation study of three course materia...

Traditional assessments of public speaking skills rely on human scoring. We report a n initial study on the development of an automated scoring model for public speaking performances using multimodal technologies. Task design, rubric development, and human rating were conducted according to standards in educational assessment. An initial corpus of 17 speakers with four speaking tasks was collec...

EEGs of extensively screened dyslexics and normal rcadcrs were recorded while they read easy and difficult texts silently and orally, and during two other verbal tasks which also differed in overt spcaking but had m~ reading component: narrative speaking and listening to a story. Mid-temporal, central and parietal leads were referenced to linkcd ears and to ('z. Largc differences bctwecn tasks ...

Argumentative speaking skill is a communication process that aims to convince others accept our opinions based on facts and strong evidence. The purpose of this study was find out the students' perspectives about effectiveness argumentative tasks given. This used qualitative method. participants in were third semester students English education Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. There twenty c...

The present paper contains some data on acoustic speech variations due to different speaking manners found in the VeriVox speech database. The database was recorded using special software aimed at getting both voluntary and involuntary speech variations. Some involuntary variations, speech in noise and speech when other tasks interfere, has been studied. Data on speaking rate, loudness, F0 and ...