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A Review of Utterance Fluency Measurement in Second Language Dialogues

Yijia ChenJiangsu University*

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Abstract

As a key concept of the measurement of L2 oral fluency, utterance fluency has gain more attention gradually. However, the current studies generally put emphasis on monologue fluency,few focused on Theoretical framework and empirical facts of dialogue fluency. Dialogue is a basic framework of speech production and has a frequent turn-taking, which holds a significant place in L2 learning. On this basis, this paper makes a critical review upon the present research of L2 dialogue fluency. Above all, this paper summaries present indicators of within-turn fluency and between-turn fluency in dialogue. Moreover, it pays attention to other languages except English (especially Chinese), since previous investigations always prioritized the importance of utterance fluency when L2 is English. Last but not least, it indicates the research gaps and propose some valuable directions of future studies, in the hope of prompting the theoretical construction of L2 utterance fluency, making it possible for the research of utterance fluency to adapt the multilingual world.

Keywords: utterance fluency; L2 dialogue; turn; temporal.
Published: May 6, 2026
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/2026.NS33248
Volume: CHR Vol.109
pp. 18-23
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