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Title: Can Video-Creation Project Work Affect Students' Oral Proficiency? An Analysis of Fluency, Complexity and Accuracy
Language: English
Authors: Spring, Ryan
Source: TESL-EJ. Aug 2020 24(2).
Availability: TESL-EJ. e-mail: editor@tesl-ej.org; Web site: http://tesl-ej.org
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 17
Publication Date: 2020
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Video Technology, Student Projects, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Film Production, Language Fluency, Language Skills, Language Proficiency, Oral Language, Program Effectiveness, Pronunciation, Syntax, Vocabulary, Foreign Countries, College Students
Geographic Terms: Japan
ISSN: 1072-4303
Abstract: This study reports on how project-based language learning in which L1 Japanese EFL learners created short videos affected L2 oral proficiency. Students took short speaking tests before and after the class, and the fluency, complexity and accuracy of the pre- and posttests were measured to see which, if any, of these three aspects of proficiency would show improvement. The results indicated that participants made marginal progress in fluency, reducing their number of pauses and increasing their raw speech rate slightly, and significantly improved their syntactic complexity (p<0.001, d=1.1) and both syntactic (p=0.04, d=0.48) and pronunciation accuracy (p=0.002, d=0.75), but did not seem to make gains in lexical complexity. Overall, the results suggest that project-based learning can result in clear improvements in oral proficiency, meaning that it can be appropriately implemented in oral communication classes, but that the greatest gains are likely to be made in accuracy and syntactic complexity. However, it is still unclear whether different types of project settings will affect L2 oral proficiency in the same way.
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Entry Date: 2020
Accession Number: EJ1268697
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