Nonnative English Speaker Performance on the Basic English Lexicon (BEL) Sentences

Autor/inn/en	Rimikis, Stacey; Smiljanic, Rajka; Calandruccio, Lauren
Titel	Nonnative English Speaker Performance on the Basic English Lexicon (BEL) Sentences
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56 (2013) 3, S.792-804 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/1092-4388(2012/12-0178)
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Vocabulary; Sentences; Difficulty Level; Questionnaires; Internet; Cultural Differences; Acoustics; Language Proficiency; Language Tests; Auditory Perception; Participant Characteristics; Native Language; Predictor Variables; Statistical Analysis; Word Recognition; Pronunciation; Language Fluency; Scoring; Morphemes; Morphology (Languages); Verbs; Immigration; Correlation; Linguistic Performance; New York; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Wortschatz; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Fragebogen; Kultureller Unterschied; Akustik; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Language test; Sprachtest; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Prädiktor; Statistische Analyse; Worterkennung; Aussprache; Bewertung; Morphem; Morphology; Morphologie; Korrelation
Abstract	Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine sentence-recognition performance for a large, diverse group of nonnative speakers of English on the recently developed Basic English Lexicon (BEL) sentence materials and to determine whether BEL sentence lists are equated in difficulty for this population. Method: The BEL sentences were presented to 102 nonnative speakers of English with normal hearing and varied linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Five hundred sentences were presented mixed with noise spectrally matched to the target sentences. Subjects completed an online questionnaire providing detailed demographic and linguistic information. Listeners' spoken English proficiency was also assessed using the Versant English Test (Pearson Education, 2010). Results: Nonnative listeners showed equal word-recognition performance for 3 groups of BEL sentence lists, each group containing sentence lists that had equivalent difficulty. In addition, spoken language proficiency and several demographic and linguistic factors were significantly correlated with BEL performance. Conclusion: The BEL sentence materials have been tested on a large cohort of nonnative speakers of English and have been found to be appropriate for use in speech-perception testing with this population. (Contains 10 tables and 6 figures.) (As Provided).
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