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Speech-to-text applications’ accuracy in English language learners’ speech transcription: ...Hirai and Angelina Kovalyova 21 About the Authors Akiyo Hirai is a professor in the English Language Education program at University of Tsukuba, Japan. Her research interests include l...

by Akiyo Hirai, Angelina Kovalyova
in Volume 28 Number 1, 2024
Commentary: Can free reading take you all the way? A response to Cobb (2007): ...Hirai (1999)1 1st – 3rd year college EFL Various 87.5 wpm National Institute for Literacy (2003)2 Adult ESL Beginning 102 wpm (oral) Taguchi & Gorsuch (2002) 1st year college EFL Beginning 115 w...

by Jeff McQuillan, Stephen D. Krashen
in Volume 12 Number 1, February 2008
Commentary: Response to mcquillan and krashen (2008): ...Hirai’s (1999) study involves an experimental reading task that measures not reading rate but rather "rauding" rate, following Carver’s (1990) notion that reading rate is best measured using texts t...

by Tom Cobb
in Volume 12 Number 1, February 2008