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The Relationship Between Utterance and Perceived Fluency: A Meta-Analysis of Correlational Studies
The Modern Language Journal ( IF 4.7 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-04 , DOI: 10.1111/modl.12706
SHUNGO SUZUKI 1 , JUDIT KORMOS 1 , TAKUMI UCHIHARA 2
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Listener-based judgements of fluency play an important role in second language (L2) communication contexts and in L2 assessment. Accordingly, our meta-analysis examined the relationship between different aspects of utterance fluency and listener-based judgements of perceived fluency by analyzing primary studies reporting correlation coefficients between objective measures of temporal features and subjective ratings of fluency. We analyzed 263 effect sizes from 22 studies (N = 335–746) to calculate the mean effect sizes of the links between utterance and perceived fluency. We also investigated the moderator effects of 11 methodological factors—such as speech stimuli, listeners’ background, rating procedure, and computation of utterance fluency measures—on the relationship between utterance and perceived fluency. Perceived fluency was strongly associated with speed and pause frequency, r = |.59–.62|; moderately with pause duration, r = |.46|; and weakly with repair fluency, r = |.20|; while composite measures showed the strongest effect sizes, r = |.72–.76|. Moderator analyses revealed that the utterance–perceived fluency link is influenced by methodological variables related to how speech samples are prepared for listeners’ judgements and how listeners’ attention is directed in evaluations of fluency. These findings suggest future directions for L2 fluency research and implications for language assessment.

中文翻译:

话语与感知流畅度的关系:相关研究的元分析

基于听者的流利程度判断在第二语言 (L2) 交流环境和 L2 评估中起着重要作用。因此,我们的元分析通过分析主要研究报告时间特征的客观测量与流畅的主观评价之间的相关系数,检查了话语流畅的不同方面与基于听者的感知流畅的判断之间的关系。我们分析了 22 项研究中的 263 个效应量(N= 335–746)来计算话语和感知流畅度之间联系的平均效应大小。我们还调查了 11 个方法论因素——如言语刺激、听众背景、评级程序和话语流利度度量的计算——对话语和感知流利度之间关系的调节作用。感知流畅度与速度和停顿频率密切相关,r = |.59–.62|;中等暂停持续时间,r = |.46|;且修复流畅性较弱,r = |.20|;虽然综合措施显示出最强的影响大小,r= |.72–.76|。主持人分析表明,话语-感知流利度的联系受方法论变量的影响,这些方法论变量与如何为听者的判断准备语音样本以及如何将听者的注意力引导到流利度评估中有关。这些发现表明了 L2 流利度研究的未来方向以及对语言评估的影响。
更新日期:2021-05-04
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