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First published 2025-3

To what extent are foreign language anxiety and foreign language enjoyment related to L2 fluency? An investigation of task-specific emotions and breakdown and speed fluency in an oral task

Jakub Bielak

Language Teaching Research

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First published 2025-7

Exploring the optimal thresholds of silent pauses for measuring second language utterance fluency in monologic and dialogic speaking

Jianmin Gao, Peijian Paul Sun, Chenxin Li

Language Testing

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First published 2026

Bridging the research–pedagogy gap: ESL teachers’ beliefs about L2 fluency and fluency-enhancing classroom practices

Ayano Kawasaki

Language Teaching Research

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First published 2017-4

Speed,breakdown,and repair: An investigation of fluency in long-term second-language speakers of English

Cornelia Lahmann, Rasmus Steinkrauss, Monika S Schmid

International Journal of Bilingualism

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First published 2019-7

The role of memory updating in shallow native and opaque second language learning

Caterina Artuso, Paola Palladino

Second Language Research

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First published 2018-5

Is fluency being ‘neglected’ in the classroom? Teacher understanding of fluency and related classroom practices

Parvaneh Tavakoli, Ann-Marie Hunter

Language Teaching Research

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First published 2014-7

Native speakers’ perceptions of fluency and accent in L2 speech

Anne-France Pinget, Hans Rutger Bosker, Hugo Quené [...]

Language Testing

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First published 2016-1

How do utterance measures predict raters’ perceptions of fluency in French as a second language?

Yvonne Préfontaine, Judit Kormos, Daniel Ezra Johnson

Language Testing

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First published 2013-4

What makes speech sound fluent? The contributions of pauses,speed and repairs

Hans Rutger Bosker, Anne-France Pinget, Hugo Quené [...]

Language Testing

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First published 2023

Examining the perceptions and self-reported practices of L2 teachers in China regarding oral fluency: A conceptual replication and extension

Qiao Gan, Lin Ma

Language Teaching Research

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