TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of pushed production of single words and multiword patterns on L2 oral fluency
T2 - Some evidence from temporal measurements
AU - Chan, Hang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2019.
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - The contribution of formulaic sequences (FSs) to native speaker fluency is uncontroversial, but their contribution to L2 fluency is often assumed. These units package both meaning and form in an entire unit and facilitate both conceptualization and formulation of speech. These are the 'fluency assumptions' of these FSs. This study asks if the 'fluency assumptions' of FSs can be imitated in classroom settings by pushing learners to use common multiword (MW) patterns to achieve a kind of 'instruction-enhanced L2 fluency'. It also compares the outcome with the teaching of single words (SWs). Learners' (a) temporal fluency and (b) fluency at the levels of conceptualizing and formulating speech were assessed. Towell, R., R. Hawkins & N. Bazergui. 1996. The development of fluency in advanced learners of French. Applied Linguistics 17 (1). 84-119, avant-garde approach to analyzing fluency was drawn on in the discussion of the results. Broadly, instructing MW patterns and SWs sped up formulation processes but made demands on speech conceptualization, and there existed other subtle differences.
AB - The contribution of formulaic sequences (FSs) to native speaker fluency is uncontroversial, but their contribution to L2 fluency is often assumed. These units package both meaning and form in an entire unit and facilitate both conceptualization and formulation of speech. These are the 'fluency assumptions' of these FSs. This study asks if the 'fluency assumptions' of FSs can be imitated in classroom settings by pushing learners to use common multiword (MW) patterns to achieve a kind of 'instruction-enhanced L2 fluency'. It also compares the outcome with the teaching of single words (SWs). Learners' (a) temporal fluency and (b) fluency at the levels of conceptualizing and formulating speech were assessed. Towell, R., R. Hawkins & N. Bazergui. 1996. The development of fluency in advanced learners of French. Applied Linguistics 17 (1). 84-119, avant-garde approach to analyzing fluency was drawn on in the discussion of the results. Broadly, instructing MW patterns and SWs sped up formulation processes but made demands on speech conceptualization, and there existed other subtle differences.
KW - fluency measures
KW - L2 oral fluency
KW - multiword patterns
KW - pausal analysis
KW - single words
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U2 - 10.1515/iral-2015-9991
DO - 10.1515/iral-2015-9991
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85037570569
SN - 0019-042X
VL - 57
SP - 147
EP - 179
JO - IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
JF - IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
IS - 2
ER -