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Mixed-methods design combining 19 speech measures, listener ratings, and teacher introspective reports

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Description

The study's methodology combined quantitative and qualitative strands: "a mixed-methods approach was used" in which "speech samples of 40 native French learners of English were analyzed using 19 quantitative speech measures, including segmental, suprasegmental, fluency, lexical, grammatical, and discourse-level variables." These measures were correlated with 60 native English listeners' scalar judgments, and three ESL teachers provided introspective reports on the linguistic aspects they attended to, with findings integrated through data triangulation.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Speech samples from L2 learners, native-listener scalar ratings, and trained ESL teachers able to give introspective reports on the linguistic aspects they attend to.

Constraints

Target Learners

  • adult L2 learners of English

Learning Goals

  • identifying linguistic influences on listeners' L2 comprehensibility ratings

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Talia Isaacs and Pavel Trofimovich. (2012). DECONSTRUCTING COMPREHENSIBILITY: Identifying the Linguistic Influences on Listeners' L2 Comprehensibility Ratings. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Volume 34, Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263112000150
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title Mixed-methods design combining 19 speech measures, listener ratings, and teacher introspective reports
description The study's methodology combined quantitative and qualitative strands: "a mixed-methods approach was used" in which "speech samples of 40 native French learners of English were analyzed using 19 quantitative speech me...
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