This study examines a classroom-based second-language speaking test that uses picture description tasks and rating scale of functional adequacy (FA) in terms measurement quality. We used four FA scores from 36371 Japanese learners English at two public senior high schools 44 undergraduate graduate students. Each examinee was evaluated by or three raters. many-facet Rasch to stack longitudinal d...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect using gap task opinion, reasoning and information on speaking skills at secondary school level. This used a quasi-experimental research method involving 352 students. three experimental groups received treatment with gaps in reasoning, tasks. All were examined for their initial ability. group given an intervention while control traditional imp...

Research has shown that spatial referencing differs across cultures. Whether “Western” samples, specifically ones speaking the same native language, show the same referencing patterns has not been investigated thus far. Examining spatial referencing behavior across different tasks, we compared samples from four different countries speaking the same language with respect to their application of ...

: This study aims to explore the relationship between syntactic and lexical complexity and also the relationship between different aspects of lexical complexity. To this end, speech monologs of 35 Iranian high-intermediate learners of English on three different tasks (i.e. argumentation, description, and narration) were analyzed for correlations between one measure of sy...

Age-related increases of speaking rate are not fully understood, but have been attributed to gains in biologic factors and learned skills that support speech production. This study investigated developmental changes in speaking rate and articulatory kinematics of participants aged 4 (N = 7), 7 (N = 10), 10 (N = 9), 13 (N = 7), 16 (N = 9) years, and young adults (N = 11) in speaking tasks varyin...

This paper examined to what extent causal explanation speaking tasks (CESTs) are cognitively appropriate for assessing young language learners’ (YLLs) L2 speaking. Ninety-six YLLs (48 from Grade 4 and 6 each) in China performed two CESTs both L1 (Chinese) (English). They also completed receptive productive vocabulary size tests. We how their CEST performance scores, choice of antecedents, speec...

The ATAROS project aims to identify acoustic signals of stance-taking in order to inform the development of automatic stance recognition in natural speech. Due to the typically low frequency of stance-taking in existing corpora that have been used to investigate related phenomena such as subjectivity, we are creating an audio corpus of unscripted conversations between dyads as they complete col...