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Multi-stage development and validation of an L2 prosody scoring rubric for Chinese learners of English

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Date & Time

Tue, 5 May 2026

13:00

Venue

Seminar Room A and online

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About this event

Discover innovative assessment techniques for language learners in this insightful seminar.

Why you should come

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• Hear Yuanyue Hao discuss L2 English prosody rubric development.

• Learn about meta-analysis of prosodic features correlated with L2 speech.

• Discover how verbal protocols informed revisions to the rubric.

Event Highlights

  • Multi-stage development of an L2 English prosody rubric with specific criteria.
  • Triangulation of criteria using meta-analysis, retrospective verbal protocols, and psychometric analysis.
  • Identification of prosodic features significantly correlated with overall L2 speech quality.
  • Application of the revised rubric to assess speech samples, analyzed by many-facets Rasch modelling.

Speaker

Yuanyue Hao

final-year doctoral student in the Department of Education, University of Oxford

Programme

13:00 - 14:00

Seminar

Organized by: Department of Education

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