Chapter 11. The measurement of oral fluency in mission languages
- Author(s): Lynne Hansen 1 , James Gardner 2 , James Pollard 3 , Joshua Rowe 4 and Junko Tsukayama 5
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 Brigham Young University, Hawai’i2 Tropical North Queensland TAFE3 Hong Kong University4 Portland State University5 Meio University
- Source: Second Language Acquisition Abroad , pp 245-258
- Publication Date February 2012
This chapter reports a study of the L2 oral fluency of missionaries who were learning Japanese in Japan and of returnees from the same population back in the United States. Hesitation phenomena in their oral narratives were measured, and related to measures of their second language proficiency. Drawing upon this work and upon previous applications of ASR technology to oral testing, we subsequently developed a computerized instrument for the measurement of temporality in speech including an algorithm for applications in language assessment. We compare its automated measurement of our Japanese data with the manual measurement done in the original study. In conclusion, we suggest potential research and language testing applications.
- Affiliations: 1: Brigham Young University, Hawai’i; 2: Tropical North Queensland TAFE; 3: Hong Kong University; 4: Portland State University; 5: Meio University
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