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024 7 |a 10.17507/Tpls.1501.01  |2 doi 
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045 2 |b d20250101  |b d20250131 
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100 1 |a Liang, Jing  |u San Francisco Unified School District, United States 
245 1 |a Mediating Language Fluency Development: An Action Research Study in a High-School Chinese Classroom 
260 |b Academy Publication Co., Ltd.  |c Jan 2025 
513 |a Journal Article 
520 3 |a Fluency development is critical in language learning; however, the teacher's role as a mediator in a learner's fluency development has been rarely explored in constructive learning classrooms. Under the guidance of Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) theory, this study investigated the extent to which teacher-implemented mediation aided learners' cognitive and utterance fluency development in one Advanced Placement (AP) Chinese high-school task-based language teaching (TBLT) classroom. MLE theory, developed by psychologist Reuven Feuerstein, provided a mediation framework for this study. The design of this action research followed the test-intervention-test procedure and collected pre- and post-test speaking samples from 21 participants. To investigate the effectiveness of the mediation, three utterance fluency variables that correlate to cognitive fluency development were measured: the number of silent pauses, the number of self-corrections, and mean syllable duration (MSD). The pre- and post-test data showed that both the number of silent pauses and MSD statistically significantly decreased on the posttests, which suggests that the meditation intervention improved learners' utterance and cognitive fluency. Although the decrease in the number of self-corrections on the posttest was not statistically significant in this study, this finding suggests that self-correction is a variable that may require a much longer time to change. 
653 |a Teaching 
653 |a Action research 
653 |a Students 
653 |a Fluency 
653 |a School environment 
653 |a Cognitive development 
653 |a Research design 
653 |a Mediation 
653 |a Educational activities 
653 |a Teachers 
653 |a Classrooms 
653 |a Pauses 
653 |a Task-based language teaching 
653 |a Learning 
653 |a Chinese languages 
653 |a Second language instruction 
653 |a Chinese as a second language 
653 |a Second language learning 
653 |a Secondary education 
653 |a Intervention 
653 |a Cognition 
653 |a Meditation 
653 |a Language acquisition 
653 |a Tests 
653 |a Mediated learning 
653 |a Language 
653 |a Task Analysis 
653 |a Teacher Role 
653 |a Stimuli 
653 |a Literature Reviews 
653 |a Guidance 
653 |a Child Role 
653 |a Teaching Methods 
653 |a Piagetian Theory 
653 |a Language Teachers 
653 |a Learning Theories 
653 |a Learning Experience 
653 |a Mediation Theory 
653 |a Individualized Instruction 
653 |a Language Fluency 
653 |a Student Improvement 
653 |a Intention 
653 |a Child Development 
653 |a Advanced Placement 
653 |a Educational Environment 
653 |a Learner Engagement 
653 |a Sharing Behavior 
653 |a Behavior Theories 
700 1 |a Apedoe, Xornam  |u University of San Francisco, United States 
773 0 |t Theory and Practice in Language Studies  |g vol. 15, no. 1 (Jan 2025), p. 1 
786 0 |d ProQuest  |t Education Database 
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