Speech rate and pausing in English: Comparing learners at different levels of proficiency with native speakers
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F20%3A10409018" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/20:10409018 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=RTJcf5uc0m" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=RTJcf5uc0m</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30397/TJTESOL.202004_17(1).0003" target="_blank" >10.30397/TJTESOL.202004_17(1).0003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Speech rate and pausing in English: Comparing learners at different levels of proficiency with native speakers
Original language description
In its descriptors for oral fluency the Common European Framework of Reference includes frequent references to the tempo of speech and the use of pausing. The present study aims to provide empirical evidence that these fluency phenomena exist; it also seeks to establish how they distinguish two different levels of proficiency (B2 and C1) among L2 English speakers as well as between these speakers and native speakers. The analysis is based on a large dataset of 50 native English speakers and 89 learners of English (derived from the LOCNEC corpus, and from the Czech and Taiwanese sub-corpora of LINDSEI); it compares their speech rates and the frequency and location of unfilled pauses in picture description tasks. Significant differences are found between all the groups showing that even between B2 and C1 levels the growth of proficiency is accompanied by an increase in speech rate and a decrease in the frequency of pausing, particularly within clauses and within constituents. By establishing the ranges of these values, the study sets possible targets which can be exploited for the purposes of language teaching and assessment.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Taiwan Journal of TESOL
ISSN
1814-9448
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
TW - TAIWAN (PROVINCE OF CHINA)
Number of pages
30
Pages from-to
57-86
UT code for WoS article
000530021000003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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