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In literature, the term “oral narrative task” refers to short narrative stories which participants, typically in a speaking exam, orally produce based on a sequence of picture prompts that are visually presented to them. This study investigated three major attributes of Korean EFL learners’ speaking performance in their oral narrative tasks, namely oral fluency (e.g., speech rate), syntactic complexity (ratio of subordinate clauses to main clauses), and lexical diversity (type-to- token ratio). We focused on examining whether and to what extent Korean EFL learners’ proficiency and the structure of the oral narrative tasks that they are involved in influence their story-telling performance as indexed by the above-mentioned three attributes. To this end, we made use of three sets of picture-cued story telling tasks, differing from each other in terms of task structure. The tasks were performed by a total of 44 (24 female, 20 male) Korean undergraduate students (26 high-level vs. 18 low-level proficiency) as they participated in an English speaking test. Their spoken responses from the test were orthographically and phonemically transcribed and subsequently analyzed using computerized procedures. Overall, the results suggest that the proficiency and task structure factors significantly influenced several fluency measures, but the role of the same factors was limited in the participants’ use of syntactically complex sentences and the diversity of vocabulary that they employed in the story-telling tasks. Implications of the findings for Korean EFL learners’ characteristics of oral performance in their narrative tasks are discussed.

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I. Introduction
 II. Research Design
  1. Data Elicitation
  2. Participants and Format of Elicitation of Speech Material
  3. Orthographic Transcriptions, Phonemic Transcriptions, and Data Quer
 III. Analysis
  1. Fluency
  2. Syntactic Complexity
  3. Lexical Diversity
 IV. Results and Discussion
  1. Results
  2. Syntactic Complexity
  3. Discussions
 V. Conclusion
 Works Cited

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저자

• Lee, Yongeun [ 이용은 | Chung-Ang University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810