This study measured the effectiveness of Readable English, a reading fluency and comprehension program, on underperforming sixth, seventh, eighth grade rural, American English-speaking students over course one school year. Students were randomly assigned to either intervention condition (n = 167) or typical practice 177). Middle in scored statistically significantly higher than measures EasyCBM...

Much of the power of a computer tutor comes from its ability to assess students. In some domains, including oral reading, assessing the proficiency of a student is a challenging task for a computer. Our approach for assessing student reading proficiency is to use data that a computer tutor collects through its interactions with a student to estimate his performance on a human-administered test ...

1 Reading tutors can provide an unprecedented opportunity to collect and analyze large amounts of data for understanding how students learn. We trained models of oral reading prosody (pitch, intensity, and duration) on a corpus of narrations of 4558 sentences by 11 fluent adults. We used these models to evaluate the oral reading prosody of 85,209 sentences read by 55 children (mostly) 7-10 year...

The  present  meta-analysis  was  conducted  to  provide  a  quantitative  measure  of  the overall effects of task complexity on Chinese EFL learners’ language  production.  Based  on  the strict inclusion criteria, 12 primary  studies  were synthesized according to key  features.  Eleven of them  were  meta-analyzed  to  investigate  effects  of  raising  the  resource-directing  task  comple...

Improving oral communication skills is fundamental when it comes to learning English, however; there are lots of factors that make mastering them challenging. English speakers often find managing verbal situations stressful, as they must mind and process many aspects in a restricted time. This paper focuses on the effect teaching multiword strings, known formulaic sequences, an operational tool...

Abstract This study attempts to investigate how four groups of participants at Tra Vinh University perceive oral fluency. is conducted in the hope obtain more perceptions fluency so future rubrics can be developed based on such perceptions. The used a set items stating what should like, which was Qualitative aspects spoken language proposed by Council Europe (2019). To test if were accepted, in...

A brief experimental analysis was used to evaluate the relative effectiveness of combining two consequences (contingent reinforcement or performance feedback) with an antecedent intervention (listening passage preview and repeated readings) on the oral reading fluency of 6 elementary students. The antecedent intervention increased the number of correctly read words per minute for all 6 students...

Automaticity and real-time aspects of performance are directly relevant to L2 spoken language proficiency. This paper analyzes data from L2 speakers of English and Spanish spread over a range of proficiency levels as identified by traditional holistic, rubric-based human ratings. In spontaneous speech samples from these L2 populations, we studied timed measures of spoken fluency (linguistic uni...

This article presents an approach to the automatic assessment of the oral reading fluency (ORF) of children in Spain who are learning to read English. We compared different acoustic modeling configurations and adaptation methods to determine the most accurate means of estimating reliable children’s oral reading fluency scores using the standard metric of words correct per minute (WCPM). We addr...

The purpose of this article is to provide a commentary on the current state of several measurement issues pertaining to curriculum-based measures of reading (R-CBM). We begin by providing an overview of the utility of R-CBM, followed by a presentation of five specific measurements considerations: 1) the reliability of R-CBM oral reading fluency, 2) issues pertaining to form effects, 3) the gene...