What Is Lexical Proficiency? Some Answers From Computational Models of Speech Data

Crossley, Scott A.; Salsbury, Tom; McNamara, Danielle S.; Jarvis, Scott

doi:10.5054/tq.2010.244019

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“…To date, several studies have examined various lexical aspects of L2 speech, with the goal of understanding how they interact to impact native speakers' judgments of speaking ability (Crossley & McNamara, 2013;Crossley, Salsbury, & McNamara, 2014;Crossley, Salsbury, McNamara, & Jarvis, 2011;Iwashita, Brown, McNamara, & O'Hagan, 2008;Lu, 2012). In this line of work, lexical profiles of L2 speech have been analyzed via six broad domains of word knowledge: (a) appropriateness (i.e., how accurately words are chosen and used), (b) fluency (i.e., how many words are produced per unit of speaking time), (c) variation (i.e., how many different words are produced), (d) sophistication (i.e., how many infrequent and unfamiliar words are used), (e) abstractness (i.e., how many abstract words are used), and (f) sense relations (i.e., how often polysemous words with multiple senses are used).…”

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“…To sidestep this limitation, Crossley et al (2014) had raters evaluate the overall proficiency of L2 oral production by rating transcriptions of learner speech, using holistic rubrics adapted from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proficiency guidelines for speaking and writing (ranging from high to low proficiency). The resulting transcript-based ratings were associated with five out of 10 lexical variables, which included measures of appropriateness, diversity, frequency, imageability, concreteness, and hypernymy (see also Crossley & McNamara, 2013;Crossley et al, 2011).…”

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Lexical Profiles of Comprehensible Second Language Speech

Saito

Webb

Trofimovich³

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Stud Second Lang Acquis

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This study examined contributions of lexical factors to native-speaking raters' assessments of comprehensibility (ease of understanding) of second language (L2) speech. Extemporaneous oral narratives elicited from 40 French speakers of L2 English were transcribed and evaluated for comprehensibility by 10 raters. Subsequently, the samples were analyzed for 12 lexical variables targeting diverse domains of lexical usage (appropriateness, fluency, variation, sophistication, abstractness, and sense relations). Results revealed that L2 comprehensibility was chiefly of L2 speech especially from the perspective of comprehensibility. Therefore, the goal of this study was to extend previous research on L2 comprehensibility by targeting a range of lexical measures in L2 speech, including lexical appropriateness, fluency, variation, sophistication, abstractness, and sense relations. The overall intent was to identify which lexical aspects of L2 speech are associated with different levels of oral ability, defined in terms of comprehensibility of L2 speech for native-speaking raters.

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Lexical Profiles of Comprehensible Second Language Speech

Saito

Webb

Trofimovich³

et al. 2015

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“…In line with previous L2 vocabulary research (e.g. Crossley et al, 2011Crossley et al, , 2015, the targeted speech samples were relatively long (about 3 minutes), which maximized the likelihood that they included a variety of pronunciation and lexical phenomena that could be linked to L2 comprehensibility.…”

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“…In these studies, L2 speech is often evaluated from written transcripts rather than from audiorecordings, to minimize pronunciation and fluency influences on speech assessments. For example, transcript-based ratings of lexical proficiency (ranging from 'high' to 'low') have been shown to be related to lexical sophistication (in terms of word frequency counts), abstractness (measured as lexical hierarchy), and lexical appropriateness (defined through collocation 142 Par t 3: Perspec t ives on Pronunciat ion Assessment From Psycholinguist ics accuracy) (Crossley et al, 2011(Crossley et al, , 2015. In our own recent study (Saito et al, in press), we also asked raters to judge comprehensibility in transcribed L2 speech samples.…”

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Second Language Pronunciation Assessment

Fulcher¹,

Browne²

2016

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms This series brings together titles dealing with a variety of aspects of language acquisition and processing in situations where a language or languages other than the native language is involved. Second language is thus interpreted in its broadest possible sense. The volumes included in the series all offer in their different ways, on the one hand, exposition and discussion of empirical findings and, on the other, some degree of theoretical reflection. In this latter connection, no particular theoretical stance is privileged in the series; nor is any relevant perspective -sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, etc. -deemed out of place. The intended readership of the series includes final-year undergraduates working on second language acquisition projects, postgraduate students involved in second language acquisition research, and researchers, teachers and policy-makers in general whose interests include a second language acquisition component. Second Language Pronunciation Assessment SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITIONFull details of all the books in this series and of all our other publications can be found on http://www.multilingual-matters.com, or by writing to Multilingual Matters, St Nicholas House, 31-34 High Street, Bristol BS1 2AW, UK. SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: 107 Second Language Pronunciation AssessmentInterdisciplinary Perspectives All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. Edited by Talia Isaacs and Pavel Trofi movich MULTILINGUAL MATTERSThe policy of Multilingual Matters/Channel View Publications is to use papers that are natural, renewable and recyclable products, made from wood grown in sustainable forests. In the manufacturing process of our books, and to further support our policy, preference is given to printers that have FSC and PEFC Chain of Custody certification. The FSC and/or PEFC logos will appear on those books where full certification has been granted to the printer concerned.Typeset by Nova Techset Private Limited, Bengaluru and Chennai, India. Printed and bound in the UK by the CPI Books Group Ltd. Printed and bound in the US by Edwards Brothers Malloy, Inc. In Memory of Alan Davies and Danielle Guénette AcknowledgementsThis edited volume, which brings together different but complementary research perspectives to establish a common platform in which to discuss issues relevant to assessing second language (L2) pronunciation, would not have been possible without the contributions and commitment of the authors, who explore key issues through different disciplinary lenses in the chapters that make up this volume. The vision for the book arose during a cold Canadian winter at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century, when a sense of momentum for i...

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“…Previous Coh-Metrix research shows that CELEX indices are inversely related to text quality assessed by human raters (e.g., Crossley, Salsbury, McNamara, & Jarvis, 2011). (2) MRC (medical research council) psycholinguistic database indices (Coltheart, 1981).…”

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