Unraveling how learners' L2 fluency performance relates to their L1 is crucial for promoting
L2 speaking assessment. Despite the consensus that learners' L1 and L2 are correlated in …

‚* ichö denkö::, ähm, mhm…'–wer kennt das nicht? Häsitationsphänomene, z. B. Pausen mit
und ohne Häsitationspartikeln, Wiederholungen oder Selbstreparaturen, treten auf, wenn …

Many migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds need to look for unskilled and low-
skilled work in a range of industries in New Zealand. A number of barriers to employment …

The perception of speech in cross-linguistic situations is known to be modulated by the
listener's language background. In studies of the perception of foreign-accented speech by …

Der vorliegende Beitrag widmet sich der Bewertung mündlicher Leistungen in der Fremd-
/Zweitsprache, konkret der Bewertung von Flüssigkeit. Gezeigt werden im Folgenden ein …

[H] esitation phenomena […] provide good evidence that speaking is not a matter of
regurgitating material already stored in the mind in linguistic form, but that it is a creative art …

Differences in second language speech fluency ratings: Native versus nonnative listeners
Page 1 Differences in second language speech fluency ratings: Native versus nonnative …