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Title |
Title of document |
Comprehensibility and Fluency - Comprehensibility in Language Assessment |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Parvaneh Tavakoli; University of Reading; United Kingdom |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Sheryl Cooke; British Council; China |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Linguistics |
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Keyword(s) |
fluency; comprehensibility; rating descriptors; language test |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Language Testing |
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Description |
Abstract |
The chapter’s main aim is to discuss the relationship between fluency and comprehensibility. After defining the construct of fluency in terms of cognitive, perceived and utterance fluency (Segalowitz, 2010; Tavakoli & Wright, 2020) and measureable features of speed, breakdown and repair fluency (Skehan, 2003, Tavakoli, et al., 2020), the chapter discusses in what ways these features of speech affect comprehensibility. More specifically, the chapter will discuss the effects of fluency on listeners and their judgements. By providing examples of how these different features of fluency are represented in rating descriptors of different language tests, the chapter will argue that the relationship between fluency and comprehensibility is not clearly represented in rating descriptors and rating materials. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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13-Feb-2024 |
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Type |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/41101 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.41101 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Comprehensibility in Language Assessment |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Coverage |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |