Oral assessment in language learning has received increasing attention among second language acquisition (SLA) researchers. This growing interest is likely a product of the increased interpretability of test scores and potential validity of the scores when linked to real-world criteria (Bonk & Ockey, 2003). However, assessing speaking skill can be more challenging than assessing other skills be...

Communication strategies (CSs) are systematic attempts by language learners to encode or decode meaning in a target language in situations where the appropriate target language rules have not been formed. Based on this view, communication strategies can be seen as compensatory means for making up for linguistic deficiencies of second or foreign language learners. Within the conceptual framework...

Oral presentation apprehension plagues people when they communicate orally, especially make oral presentations in public. This study examined the relationship between English proficiency, public speaking experience, and communication polytechnic students during presentations. The involved 62 from a Sarawak, Malaysia, who filled PRCA-24 questionnaire that focused on elements of speaking. results...

this study was framed on the theory of language socialisation and a systematic functional linguistic (sfl) approach. the aim of the study was to analyse the oral presentation discourse produced by an elemen- tary iranian english as second language (esl) postgraduate student in an american university four times (september/december, 2015 and march/september, 2016) over one year. the data were col...

BACKGROUND There is no well-defined means to identify the level of oral feeding skills (OFS) in preterm infants. OBJECTIVE To determine whether OFS as reflected by the combination of proficiency (PRO, %ml taken during the first 5 min/ml prescribed) and rate of milk transfer (RT, ml/min) correlates with gestational age (GA), oral feeding performance (OT, %ml taken during a feeding/ml prescribe...