Correlations Between English Proficiency and Story Retelling Performance: Analysis of Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency, and Speech

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  • 英語熟達度によるリテリングパフォーマンスの違い：複雑さ、正確さ、流暢さとの関係と発話内容の分析

Description

This mixed-method study aimed to evaluate the story retelling performance of 23 Japanese university students in relation to English proficiency, as indicated by their TOEIC scores. Story retelling performance was first evaluated using Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) indices. Correlation analysis of TOEIC scores and each of the CAF results indicated moderate correlations between TOEIC reading and listening scores and complexity. Then, students’ retelling performance was further evaluated qualitatively. Those who have higher proficiency seemed to have constructed a mental representation with the gist after reading the text and tried to retell the original story using their own words, while students with lower proficiency seemed to have constructed a mental representation lacking one or more key points and tended to reproduce the original text. The current study revealed the potential of the story retelling activity: As an integrated task, it can develop both reading skills to capture the main points and speaking skills to express them in one’s own words.

Journal

  • JACET-KANTO Journal

    JACET-KANTO Journal 9 (0), 26-41, 2022-03-31

    Japan Association of College English Teachers Kanto Chapter

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Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390856428687783808
  • DOI
    10.57365/jacetkanto.9.0_26
  • ISSN
    24361993
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
  • Abstract License Flag
    Allowed

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