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EFL Speaking Fluency through Authentic Oral Production

Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, 2021
This article describes the development of speaking fluency through authentic oral production in a six-week action research study of a public high school in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The methodology included a pre-test and a post-test that measured quantitative
Jairo Israel Lopez, Andres Paredes Becerra, Maria Rossana Ramirez-Avila   +2 more
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Computer-Mediated L2 Collaborative Writing: L1 vs. L2 Interaction Effect on Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency (CAF) and Overall Quality of EFL Learners’ Texts [PDF]

Technology Assisted Language Education
Despite research studies regarding collaborative writing (CW), the effect of using L1 as the medium of collaboration has been underexplored in computer-mediated L2 CW.
Sharareh Kafian, Rajab Esfandiari
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Which Divergent Thinking Index Is More Associated With Problem Finding Ability? The Role of Flexibility and Task Nature

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Problem finding (PF) and divergent thinking (DT) are considered to be indicators of creative potential. Previous studies, with different goals, suggest a positive correlation between PF and DT.
Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi, Roni Reiter-Palmon, Zainab M. Sultan, Alaa Eldin A. Ayoub   +3 more
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Fluency Expresses Implicit Knowledge of Tonal Symmetry

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
The purposes of the present study were twofold. First, we sought to establish whether tonal symmetry produces processing fluency. Second, we sought to explore whether symmetry and chunk strength express themselves differently in fluency, as an indication
Xiaoli eLing, Fengying eLi, Fuqiang eQiao, Xiuyan eGuo, Zoltan eDienes   +4 more
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A single-system account of the relationship between priming, recognition, and fluency. [PDF]

, 2008
A single-system computational model of priming and recognition was applied to studies that have looked at the relationship between priming, recognition, and fluency in continuous identification paradigms.
Berry, CJ, Henson, RN, Shanks, DR
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Do boys and girls learn the same way? A preliminary study in primary education analyzing gender differences [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction. Differences in learning mathematics between boys and girls are being controversial according to different studies. However, those divergences are not always supported by empirical studies. One of the specific sources of difficulties on this
Aragón, Estíbaliz, Navarro, José I., Serrano, Noemí   +2 more
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Teacher readiness for reciprocal teaching in Vietnamese primary schools: a constructivist grounded theory informed by social cognitive theory

Frontiers in Education
IntroductionThis study examines how Vietnamese primary school teachers’ social and psycho-professional experiences shape their readiness to implement Reciprocal Teaching (RT) in the classroom with implications for self-determined professional development.
Tuyet Linh Vuong, Tuyet Linh Vuong, János Steklács, János Steklács   +3 more
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A preliminary investigation of stutteringand typical disfluencies in bilingual Polish‑English adults who stutter: A multiple cases approach

Logopaedica Lodziensia, 2023
This study analyzes the frequency of stuttering and typical disfluencies in Polish‑English bilingual adults who stutter during cross‑linguistic dialogue, monologue, and oral reading contexts. Additionally, the relationship between English proficiency and
Aleksandra Krawczyk, Martine Vanryckeghem, Katarzyna Węsierska, Anthony Pak‑Hin Kong, Peixin Xu   +4 more
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Retrieval from memory: Vulnerable or inviolable? [PDF]

, 2012
We show that retrieval from semantic memory is vulnerable even to the mere presence of speech. Irrelevant speech impairs semantic fluency—namely, lexical retrieval cued by a semantic category name—but only if it is meaningful (forward speech compared to ...
Hughes, Robert W., Jones, Dylan M., Marsh, John E.   +2 more
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The interplay of secondary EFL teachers’ pedagogical beliefs and pedagogical content knowledge with their instructional material use approach orientation

Heliyon
Teachers' cognitive abilities and affective-motivational characteristics were found to be predictive of their instructional activities in earlier studies.
Nurul Fitriyah Almunawaroh, János Steklács   +1 more
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