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Greer, Tim; Nanbu, Zachary – Modern Language Journal, 2022
This study draws on multimodal conversation analysis to emically account for moments in second language (L2) English interaction in which speakers appear to be visualizing text as they talk. One way they do this is by slotting out elements of a turn-in-progress in the air, shifting their hand in a slotting gesture from left to right as they say…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lu, Xiaofei – Modern Language Journal, 2012
This study was an examination of the relationship of lexical richness to the quality of English as a second language (ESL) learners' oral narratives. A computational system was designed to automate the measurement of 3 dimensions of lexical richness, that is, lexical density, sophistication, and variation, using 25 different metrics proposed in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning