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Analyzing Effect of Repeated Reading on Oral Fluency and Narrative Production for Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Repeated reading (RR) helps learners, who have little to no experience with
reading fluently to gain confidence, speed and process words automatically. The
benefits of repeated readings include helping all learners with fact recall,
aiding identification of learners' main ideas and vocabulary, increasing
comprehension, leading to faster reading as well as increasing word recognition
accuracy, and assisting struggling learners as they transition from
word-by-word reading to more meaningful phrasing. Thus, RR ultimately helps in
improvements of learners' oral fluency and narrative production. However, there
are no open audio datasets available on oral responses of learners based on
their RR practices. Therefore, in this paper, we present our dataset, discuss
its properties, and propose a method to assess oral fluency and narrative
production for learners of English using acoustic, prosodic, lexical and
syntactical characteristics. The results show that a CALL system can be
developed for assessing the improvements in learners' oral fluency and
narrative production.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur