Fluency in native and nonnative English speech
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Fluency in native and nonnative English speech
（Studies in corpus linguistics, v. 53）
Benjamins, c2013
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Bibliography: p. [175]-192
Includes index
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Description
This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech. It also reveals areas in which even highly advanced learners of English still deviate strongly from the native target norm and in which they have already approximated to it. Based on these findings, selected learners are subjected to native speakers' ratings of seven perceptive fluency variables in order to test which variables are most responsible for a perception of oral proficiency on the sides of the listeners. Finally, language-pedagogical implications derived from these findings for the improvement of fluency in learner language are presented. This book is conceptually and methodologically relevant for corpus-linguistics, learner corpus research and foreign language teaching and learning.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. List of tables
- 3. List of figures
- 4. List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 5. Chapter 1. Fluency in English speech: Setting the scene
- 6. Chapter 2. Productive fluency
- 7. Chapter 3. Perceptive fluency
- 8. Chapter 4. Nonverbal fluency
- 9. Chapter 5. Corpus data and methodology
- 10. Chapter 6. Data analysis of productive fluency in LINDSEI-GE vs. LOCNEC
- 11. Chapter 7. Perceptive fluency of selected learner types in LINDSEI-GE
- 12. Chapter 8. Summary and prospects for future research
- 13. References
- 14. Appendix. List of 3-grams and 4-grams in LOCNEC and LINDSEI-GE
- 15. Index
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