<p class="abstrak">This study explores the roles of Non-Native English Speaking Teachers (NNESTs) in facilitating improvement participants' speaking skills. The research was prompted by challenge faced a NNESTs from Indonesia, who relocated to Kyrgyzstan teach as second language. teacher lacked cultural knowledge support his language learning. To address this, employed descriptive qualita...

The purpose of this experiment was to explore whether listening positions (close or distant location from the sound source) in the classroom, and classroom reverberation, influence students' score on a test for second-language (L2) listening comprehension (i.e., comprehension of English in Swedish speaking participants). The listening comprehension test administered was part of a standardized n...

This research studied the possibility of applying socio-affective instruction in online learning Indonesia during pandemic. The main objectives this study were to investigate how Socio-Affective Instruction (SAI) and metacognition levels affected students' listening speaking proficiency students’ perceptions. was experimental with one group using a pre- post-test. sample 41 students, total popu...

The study reported herein assessed levels and patterns of concurrent correlations for Listening Comprehension (LC) and Reading Comprehension (RC) scores provided by the Secondary Level English Proficiency (SLEP) test with direct measures of ESL speaking proficiency (interview rating) and writing proficiency (essay rating), respectively, and (b) the internal consistency and dimensionality of the...

Abstract We investigated age-related decline in adult learning of Dutch as an additional language (L n ) speaking, writing, listening, and reading proficiency test scores for 56,024 immigrants with 50 L1s who came to the Netherlands study or work. Performance all four skills turned out monotonically after age arrival about 25 years, similar developmental trajectories observed earlier aging rese...

This study explores the construct validity of speaking tasks included in the TOEFL iBT (e.g., integrated and independent speaking tasks). Specifically, advanced natural language processing (NLP) tools, MANOVA difference statistics, and discriminant function analyses (DFA) are used to assess the degree to which and in what ways responses to these tasks differ with regard to linguistic characteri...

Structural events, (i.e., the structure of clauses and disfluencies) in spontaneous speech, are important components of human speaking and have been used to measure language development. However, they have not been actively used in automated speech assessment research. Given the recent substantial progress on automated structural event detection on spontaneous speech, we investigated the detect...

In foreign language learning, shadowing has been used as a method for improving speaking and listening ability. In this method, learners are required to repeat a presented native utterance as closely and quickly as possible. Since learners have to follow the speaking rate of the presented utterance, their pronunciation often becomes very inarticulate and unintelligible. These features of shadow...