An Investigation of Types of Fluency Problems Observed in Speeches of Middle School Students
Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin Konuşmalarında Gözlemlenen Akıcılık Sorunu Türlerinin İncelenmesi

Author : Eylem Ezgi ÖZDEMİR -- Gülmira Kuruoğlu
Number of pages : 225-233

Abstract

The aim of the study is to assess the fluency problems observed in the speech of middle school students in terms of species. The study group consists of the sixth, seventh and eighth grade students in the Ticaret Borsası Middle School located in the province of Bayraklı in İzmir. Power analysis was done for the sample and the sample was determined as 60 students. Each student participating in the study read the texts in the textbooks that correspond to the class levels and then the voice recordings of the students were taken while the texts were told by the students. Speech samples composed of at least 300 words from recorded speech samples were converted to transcription. The data obtained from the records were analyzed for the purpose of the study and statistically analyzed. As a result of the study, the most common types of fluency problems observed in students' speech were "filled gaps", “filled words", “repetitions", "hesitations", “prolongations” and at least “false starts".

Keywords

Speech, types of disfluency in speech, secondary school students.

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