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Franks, Suzanne Carla Yan, Xun 2023-12 application/pdf en text Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms The student, Rosana Gomez Cayapu, accepted the attached license on 2023-11-30 at 12:54. The student, Rosana Gomez Cayapu, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2023-11-30 at 13:36. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2023-12-05 at 16:15. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #20086 on 2024-03-01 at 13:15:19 Analyzing the influence of utterance fluency across assessed speaking profiles in the oral English placement test at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Gomez Cayapu, Rosana Alejandra Fluency Assessment Utterance Fluency Second Language Acquisition Language Proficiency Local Language Placement Tests. 2023-12-05 With the aim of informing the assessment of fluency within the Oral English Placement Test, this study analyzes the correlation between utterance fluency measures and proficiency scores from one of the test tasks. Furthermore, it examines how speed and breakdown fluency variables distinguish test takers across a five-profile scale. To address both inquiries, sixty student recordings were used for automated measurements and thirty for those that needed manual coding. The findings from a Spearman’s rank correlation analysis and multiple one-way Analyses of Variance revealed measures of speed fluency (i.e. speech rate, articulation rate, and mean length of run) and certain measures of breakdown fluency (i.e. frequency of silent and mid-clause pauses) correlate with proficiency scores. Additionally, utterance fluency measures overall tend to discriminate between profiles at the far ends of the scale but not necessarily within adjacent profiles, except for articulation rate. These results further support the validity of the test and inform the design of rating descriptors, as well as teaching practices to develop oral proficiency at different stages. Text eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/122043 Copyright 2023 Rosana Alejadra Gomez-Cayapu M.A. Thesis Teaching of English Sec Lang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Linguistics