Paralinguistic Cues and EFL Learners’ Speaking Fluency: A Study of First-Year Undergraduate Students of Gonabad University
Paralinguistic features are indispensable and crucial aspects of communication without which any utterance would lose its identity. On the other hand, confusion in cross-cultural communication is most often assigned to paralinguistic features. Despite the significant importance of paralinguistic clu...
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| description | Paralinguistic features are indispensable and crucial aspects of communication without which any utterance would lose its identity. On the other hand, confusion in cross-cultural communication is most often assigned to paralinguistic features. Despite the significant importance of paralinguistic clues in humans’ communication, only limited studies have tackled this issue. More specifically, despite the fact that paralinguistic features are culturally different, no study has investigated the possible relationship between these features and speaking performance of Persian-speaking learners of English. Hence, with this existing gap in the literature, in this study, we tried to scrutinize the impact of paralinguistic cues upon EFL learners’ speaking fluency in the Persian setting. To this objective, we recruited 40 first-year undergraduate female students of Linguistics at the University of Gonabad, utilizing non-random sampling method. Their English proficiency level was determined as lower-intermediate via the administration of Quick Oxford Placement Test. In our pre-test post-test experimental research, we allocated a five-week span of instruction for the purpose of teaching paralinguistic clues to the experimental group to see whether it could have a significant positive impact upon their speaking performance. The instrument we utilized to evaluate speaking capability of our participants was Researcher-Made Speaking Test. The results of our study demonstrated that utilizing paralinguistic features boosted students’ speaking capability. On the light of our finding, it could be concluded that paralinguistic features could be employed for the first-year undergraduate students to enhance their communicative performance. Future studies in diverse EFL settings, could shed light on this conclusion. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e0987fae7cb14a09958eb7da89b3e2c82025-08-20T03:14:00ZengIslamic Azad University, Tabriz BranchJournal of Applied Linguistics2008-84342538-16952024-02-011531183200Paralinguistic Cues and EFL Learners’ Speaking Fluency: A Study of First-Year Undergraduate Students of Gonabad Universityامید آزاد0گروه زبان انگلیسی- دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی- مجتمع آموزش عالی گناباد- گناباد- ایرانParalinguistic features are indispensable and crucial aspects of communication without which any utterance would lose its identity. On the other hand, confusion in cross-cultural communication is most often assigned to paralinguistic features. Despite the significant importance of paralinguistic clues in humans’ communication, only limited studies have tackled this issue. More specifically, despite the fact that paralinguistic features are culturally different, no study has investigated the possible relationship between these features and speaking performance of Persian-speaking learners of English. Hence, with this existing gap in the literature, in this study, we tried to scrutinize the impact of paralinguistic cues upon EFL learners’ speaking fluency in the Persian setting. To this objective, we recruited 40 first-year undergraduate female students of Linguistics at the University of Gonabad, utilizing non-random sampling method. Their English proficiency level was determined as lower-intermediate via the administration of Quick Oxford Placement Test. In our pre-test post-test experimental research, we allocated a five-week span of instruction for the purpose of teaching paralinguistic clues to the experimental group to see whether it could have a significant positive impact upon their speaking performance. The instrument we utilized to evaluate speaking capability of our participants was Researcher-Made Speaking Test. The results of our study demonstrated that utilizing paralinguistic features boosted students’ speaking capability. On the light of our finding, it could be concluded that paralinguistic features could be employed for the first-year undergraduate students to enhance their communicative performance. Future studies in diverse EFL settings, could shed light on this conclusion.https://sanad.iau.ir/journal/jal/Article/961256learningcommunicationsettingpersiancross-cultural |
| spellingShingle | امید آزاد Paralinguistic Cues and EFL Learners’ Speaking Fluency: A Study of First-Year Undergraduate Students of Gonabad University Journal of Applied Linguistics learning communication setting persian cross-cultural |
| title | Paralinguistic Cues and EFL Learners’ Speaking Fluency: A Study of First-Year Undergraduate Students of Gonabad University |
| title_full | Paralinguistic Cues and EFL Learners’ Speaking Fluency: A Study of First-Year Undergraduate Students of Gonabad University |
| title_fullStr | Paralinguistic Cues and EFL Learners’ Speaking Fluency: A Study of First-Year Undergraduate Students of Gonabad University |
| title_full_unstemmed | Paralinguistic Cues and EFL Learners’ Speaking Fluency: A Study of First-Year Undergraduate Students of Gonabad University |
| title_short | Paralinguistic Cues and EFL Learners’ Speaking Fluency: A Study of First-Year Undergraduate Students of Gonabad University |
| title_sort | paralinguistic cues and efl learners speaking fluency a study of first year undergraduate students of gonabad university |
| topic | learning communication setting persian cross-cultural |
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