Chinese second language learners' speaking development during study abroad: Complexity, accuracy and fluency

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dc.contributor.authorGuo, Rongrong
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-27T11:48:02Z
dc.date.available2024-02-23T11:09:15Zen
dc.date.available2024-02-27T11:48:02Z
dc.date.issued2024-02-21
dc.date.updated2024-02-23T11:09:18Zen
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to contribute to the literature on second language oral Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) development by assessing English-speaking learners of Chinese during Study Abroad (SA) in China, which have rarely been investigated in an Irish context. Moreover, relationships between the CAF constructs and those between the sub-constructs impacted by Study Abroad (SA) were discussed. Data were collected from ten English-speaking undergraduates of an Irish university from two curricular oral tests during pre- and post- 10 months’ SA. Performance was elicited by topics, which were relative to the learning content when the learners were in the formal instruction context. To exhibit an in-depth evaluation of oral performance of instructed L2 Mandarin learners, fourteen CAF measures were analysed. The effects of SA on oral performance were explored by paired-samples t-tests. The results showed that the SA benefits oral gains in terms of speech fluidity, syntactic complexity (length and subordination), and lexical sophistication. Generalized from the analysis, trade-off effects are observed prevailingly between CAF constructs, while simultaneous improvements are present within CAF. This is attributable to the study abroad experience as well as the use of rehearsed monologue tasks in the study (Wright, 2020). It has shown that complexity and fluency were enhanced by pre-task planning (Skehan, 2009c; Skehan & Foster, 2001). Based on the findings, the study also provides pedagogical implications for the development of L2 Chinese oral performance in a university teaching setting.en
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dc.identifier.citationGuo, R. (2024)‘Chinese second language learners’ speaking development during study abroad: complexity, accuracy and fluency’ , International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, 5 (2), pp. 54-72. Available at: https://doi.org/10.46451/ijclt.20240206.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.46451/ijclt.20240206en
dc.identifier.endpage72
dc.identifier.issn2708-9517
dc.identifier.issued2
dc.identifier.journaltitleInternational Journal of Chinese Language Teaching
dc.identifier.startpage54
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15587
dc.identifier.volume5
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherClifford Media International , Hong Kong
dc.rights© 2024. Open Access. Published under a Creative Commons CC BY License
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectChinese second language learners
dc.subjectStudy abroad
dc.subjectComplexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF)
dc.subjectChinese language
dc.titleChinese second language learners' speaking development during study abroad: Complexity, accuracy and fluency
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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