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Publication details [#52216]

Walt, Christa van der, Thomas Niesler and Febe de Wet. 2008. Oral proficiency assessment: the use of automatic speech recognition systems. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 26 (1) : 135–146.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

automatic analysis | language proficiency | language teaching | orality | speech perception

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This article describes an attempt to employ automatic speech recognition systems to obtain objective oral proficiency scores for English as an additional language learners in the South African schooling system.