Correlation of Proficiency with Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Spoken and Written Production: Evidence from L2 Korean

This study investigates the relationship between L2 proficiency and production of 130 L2 Korean learners with four different L1s. We measured their Korean language proficiency and evaluated their writing and speaking on complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) from two story-retelling tasks. To measu...

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Main Authors:	Youngjoo Kim, Juyeon Nam, Sun-Young Lee
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages 2016-07-01
Series:	Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
Online Access:	http://www.ncolctl.org/files/jncolctl-vol-19/Correlation-of-Proficiency-with-Complexity.pdf

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spelling	doaj-5b33f84d53354f8d8ac35353aa2c107e2020-11-25T01:27:13ZengNational Council of Less Commonly Taught LanguagesJournal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages1930-90311930-90312016-07-0119Spring 2016147181Correlation of Proficiency with Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Spoken and Written Production: Evidence from L2 KoreanYoungjoo Kim0Juyeon Nam1Sun-Young Lee2Kyung Hee UniversityKyung Hee UniversityCyber Hankuk University of Foreign StudiesThis study investigates the relationship between L2 proficiency and production of 130 L2 Korean learners with four different L1s. We measured their Korean language proficiency and evaluated their writing and speaking on complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) from two story-retelling tasks. To measure complexity, we used the number of dependent clauses per T-unit for writing and C-Unit for speaking; for accuracy, we compared the number of errorfree clauses against the total number of clauses; for fluency, we calculated the number of syllables per minute. The results showed (a) a strong correlation between proficiency and CAF and (b) strong correlations among CAF across speaking and writing, indicating that CAF improve both in speaking and in writing alongside the development of L2 proficiency. http://www.ncolctl.org/files/jncolctl-vol-19/Correlation-of-Proficiency-with-Complexity.pdf
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title	Correlation of Proficiency with Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Spoken and Written Production: Evidence from L2 Korean
title_short	Correlation of Proficiency with Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Spoken and Written Production: Evidence from L2 Korean
title_full	Correlation of Proficiency with Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Spoken and Written Production: Evidence from L2 Korean
title_fullStr	Correlation of Proficiency with Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Spoken and Written Production: Evidence from L2 Korean
title_full_unstemmed	Correlation of Proficiency with Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Spoken and Written Production: Evidence from L2 Korean
title_sort	correlation of proficiency with complexity, accuracy, and fluency in spoken and written production: evidence from l2 korean
publisher	National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
series	Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
issn	1930-9031 1930-9031
publishDate	2016-07-01
description	This study investigates the relationship between L2 proficiency and production of 130 L2 Korean learners with four different L1s. We measured their Korean language proficiency and evaluated their writing and speaking on complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) from two story-retelling tasks. To measure complexity, we used the number of dependent clauses per T-unit for writing and C-Unit for speaking; for accuracy, we compared the number of errorfree clauses against the total number of clauses; for fluency, we calculated the number of syllables per minute. The results showed (a) a strong correlation between proficiency and CAF and (b) strong correlations among CAF across speaking and writing, indicating that CAF improve both in speaking and in writing alongside the development of L2 proficiency.
url	http://www.ncolctl.org/files/jncolctl-vol-19/Correlation-of-Proficiency-with-Complexity.pdf
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Correlation of Proficiency with Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Spoken and Written Production: Evidence from L2 Korean

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