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Oral reading tasks as proficiency indicators: Insights from a learner corpus study

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F23%3A10472001" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/23:10472001 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=YRRAMpgx_6" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=YRRAMpgx_6</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.22013.gra" target="_blank" >10.1075/ijlcr.22013.gra</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Oral reading tasks as proficiency indicators: Insights from a learner corpus study

  • Original language description

    This study aims to explore the potential of oral reading tasks to establish learners&apos; proficiency when compiling learner corpora. Informed by research on oral reading fluency, we selected a text containing a variety of linguistic features and submitted it to 68 English learners in Taiwan, who were interviewed for the construction of a large spoken corpus of L2 English across proficiency levels. Their proficiency was rated by trained Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR; Council of Europe, 2001, 2018, 2020) raters and ranged from A1 to B2. The performances in the reading passage were analyzed for reading rate and reading disfluencies. The relationship between reading measures and language scores was analyzed using spine plots, revealing a strong association between reading rate and language level. The number of disfluencies did not show a significant association with language level when all disfluencies were counted together. However, when different types of disfluencies were treated separately, false starts were found to be associated with language level (even though the relationship was less clear than the one reported between reading rate and language level). The study demonstrates that including a carefully selected reading passage among the tasks when compiling spoken learner corpora may be an efficient way of collecting data relating to learner performance in speech.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    International Journal of Learner Corpus Research

  • ISSN

    2215-1478

  • e-ISSN

    2215-1486

  • Volume of the periodical

    9

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    2

  • Country of publishing house

    NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

  • Number of pages

    25

  • Pages from-to

    155-179

  • UT code for WoS article

    001159946100003

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database