Nivja de Jong
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nivja de Jong is involved.
2026 Fluency assessment: Incorporating syntactic distance in a new measure of pause location Journal of Second Language Pronunciation: Online-First Articles | Article
Speech fluency is often assessed using articulation rate and pause frequency. However, not all pauses hinder fluency: when placed strategically, they structure discourse and enhance comprehensibility. To better characterize speaker fluency, it is crucial to consider where pauses occur.… read more
2021 Sketching a motivational landscape: Motivational variation within bilingual secondary education in the Netherlands Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 9:1, pp. 85–111 | Article
Studies of motivation in bilingual education settings often address questions of differences between learners in bilingual programmes and those in mainstream education. Problematic in this respect is our increasing awareness of the inherent differences between these two learner groups, as… read more
2020 The effects of instructional focus and task type on pre-vocational learners’ ability in EFL oral interaction ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 171:2, pp. 153–190 | Article
Little is known about the effect of diverging pedagogies on the development of interactional oral skills in a foreign language. In a controlled study, we evaluated three newly developed instructional programmes that were situated in the same training context, but that differed in instructional… read more
2019 Introduction: Current visions of TAML2 Current Visions of TAML2: Tense, Aspect and Modality in Second Languages, González, Paz and Tim Diaubalick (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Editorial
2012 The effect of task complexity on functional adequacy, fluency and lexical diversity in speaking performances of native and non-native speakers Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency: Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA, Housen, Alex, Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder (eds.), pp. 121–142 | Article
This study investigated how task complexity affected native and non-native speakers’ speaking performance in terms of a measure of communicative success (functional adequacy), three types of fluency (breakdown fluency, speed fluency, and repair fluency), and lexical diversity. Participants (208… read more