Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: cognición y procesamiento

Resumen:

This study investigates how different task types influence the second language (L2) speech performance of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners, how working memory capacity (WMC) is associated with that performance, and how L2 proficiency moderates the relationship between WMC and L2 speech performance across story retelling, independent speaking, and picture narration tasks. The participants were 86 Chinese EFL university undergraduates. Data were collected through a sociodemographic questionnaire, a speaking span test, and three monologic oral tasks. Results showed that distinct tasks elicited varying L2 speech performance, with the influence of WMC on L2 speech performance depending on task types. Specifically, higher WMC was associated with increased syntactic complexity in the story retelling task, and greater accuracy in...

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: factores afectivos

Resumen:

This embedded mixed-methods study reports on the impact of perceived second language oral proficiency on English-as-a-foreign-language learners’ task emotions (i.e., anxiety, enjoyment, and boredom), and the influence of task emotions on speech fluency across different perceived second language oral proficiency levels, both with learners’ actual second language oral proficiency as a control variable. A total of 77 Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language university students were recruited for quantitative data collection. Results showed that higher perceived second language oral proficiency correlated with lower anxiety and greater enjoyment. It was also found that perceived low-level second language speakers demonstrated greater emotional susceptibility. Additionally, two learners with similar actual but different perceived second...

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