The Relationship Between Native and Foreign Language Speaking Proficiency in University Students

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Result on the web

<a href="https://jle.hse.ru/article/view/11501" target="_blank" >https://jle.hse.ru/article/view/11501</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/jle.2022.11501" target="_blank" >10.17323/jle.2022.11501</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Relationship Between Native and Foreign Language Speaking Proficiency in University Students

Original language description

Background: There are many factors that affect the development of speaking in a foreign language. Drawing on the theories that state that competencies established in a native language will transfer across foreign languages, this study examines whether there is a relationship between native and foreign language speaking proficiency. Purpose: Although literature research indicates that native and foreign language acquisition processes are interrelated, there is a lack of studies comparing proficiency levels of native and foreign language speaking skills in adult learners. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between speaking competences in English as a Foreign Language and Czech as a Native Language in university students. Methods: A between-group design was used to compare two groups of fifty university students at two different levels of their speaking proficiency in English. Both groups were tested in speaking in Czech. Each test was assessed by an analytical rating scale examining four speaking sub-skills: accuracy, discourse, content and paralinguistics. The scores were analyzed using the F-Test for Equality of Variances and T-Test for the Differences between the Means. Findings: The results showed that the group with the lower level of speaking proficiency in English achieved significantly worse scores for their speaking sub-skills in Czech than the group with the higher level of speaking proficiency in English. Implications: The study offers another piece of empirical evidence in support of the theories that state that competencies established in a native language will transfer across foreign languages and suggests the importance of the development of native language competence with regard to later proficiency in a foreign language.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50300 - Education

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Language and Education

ISSN

2411-7390

e-ISSN

2411-7390

Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

RU - RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

122-139

UT code for WoS article

000865954900006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85135735242