Nivja de Jong

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nivja de Jong is involved.

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Coulange, Sylvain and Nivja de Jong 2026 Fluency assessment: Incorporating syntactic distance in a new measure of pause location Prosodic Features of Second Language Fluency, Trouvain, Jürgen, Bernd Möbius and Nivja de Jong (eds.), pp. 179–212 | Article

Speech fluency is often assessed using articulation rate and pause frequency. However, not all pauses hinder fluency: when placed strategically, they structure discourse and enhance comprehensibility. To better characterize speaker fluency, it is crucial to consider where pauses occur.… read more

Trouvain, Jürgen, Bernd Möbius and Nivja de Jong 2026 Prosodic features of second language fluency Prosodic Features of Second Language Fluency, Trouvain, Jürgen, Bernd Möbius and Nivja de Jong (eds.), pp. 157–178 | Introduction

Fluency has often been ignored in speech prosody research, including in research on prosody of a second language (L2). However, a broader view on L2 sentence prosody would be beneficial to the construction of theories concerning the acquisition of L2 prosody and applications such as assessments… read more

Mearns, Tessa and Nivja de Jong 2021 Sketching a motivational landscape: Motivational variation within bilingual secondary education in the Netherlands Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 9:1, pp. 85–111 | Article

Studies of motivation in bilingual education settings often address questions of differences between learners in bilingual programmes and those in mainstream education. Problematic in this respect is our increasing awareness of the inherent differences between these two learner groups, as… read more

van Batenburg, Eline, Ron Oostdam, Amos van Gelderen, Ruben Fukkink and Nivja de Jong 2020 The effects of instructional focus and task type on pre-vocational learners’ ability in EFL oral interaction ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 171:2, pp. 153–190 | Article

Little is known about the effect of diverging pedagogies on the development of interactional oral skills in a foreign language. In a controlled study, we evaluated three newly developed instructional programmes that were situated in the same training context, but that differed in instructional… read more

González, Paz, Tim Diaubalick and Nivja de Jong 2019 Introduction: Current visions of TAML2 Current Visions of TAML2: Tense, Aspect and Modality in Second Languages, González, Paz and Tim Diaubalick (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Editorial

Jong, Nivja de, Margarita P. Steinel, Arjen F. Florijn, Rob Schoonen and Jan H. Hulstijn 2012 The effect of task complexity on functional adequacy, fluency and lexical diversity in speaking performances of native and non-native speakers Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency: Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA, Housen, Alex, Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder (eds.), pp. 121–142 | Article

This study investigated how task complexity affected native and non-native speakers’ speaking performance in terms of a measure of communicative success (functional adequacy), three types of fluency (breakdown fluency, speed fluency, and repair fluency), and lexical diversity. Participants (208… read more