Eivind Torgersen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Eivind Torgersen is involved.

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Language Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013

Edited by Eivind Torgersen, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland

Language Variation – European Perspectives V is based on papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), which was held in Trondheim, Norway from 26 to 28 June 2013. The 17 papers included in the book explore phonetic and phonological variation… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 17] 2015. xiii, 240 pp.

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Ekiert, Monika, Andrea Révész, Eivind Torgersen and Emily Moss 2022 The role of pausing in L2 oral task performance: Toward a complete construct of functional adequacy The Assessment of Functional Adequacy in Language Performance: Special issue of the Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning 2:1 (2022), Kuiken, Folkert and Ineke Vedder (eds.), pp. 33–59 | Article

Studies of L2 oral task performance report fluency as critical for functional adequacy, with pausing behaviors emerging as strong predictors of functionally adequate speech. The present study investigated the extent to which the type and location of pausing is related to functional adequacy.… read more

Ekiert, Monika, Sofia Lampropoulou, Andrea Révész and Eivind Torgersen 2018 Chapter 10. The effects of task type and L2 proficiency on discourse appropriacy in oral task performance Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics, Taguchi, Naoko and YouJin Kim (eds.), pp. 247–263 | Chapter

Conceived within the TBLT framework, the present study examined pedagogic tasks as vehicles for demonstrating L2 learners’ discourse appropriacy in oral production. Eighty ESL learners’ discourse appropriacy was measured using three pragmatically-oriented task types (complaint, refusal, and advice)… read more

Torgersen, Eivind, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland 2015 Introduction Language Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013, Torgersen, Eivind, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland (eds.), pp. vii–xiv | Article

Fox, Sue, Arfaan Khan and Eivind Torgersen 2011 The emergence and diffusion of Multicultural English Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 19–44 | Article

We draw on the observation that many features of new urban language varieties in multilingual contexts do not seem to be associated with any one particular ethnic group. Rather, many young speakers draw on and share at least a portion of the wide linguistic resources reflecting the ethnically mixed… read more

Torgersen, Eivind, Paul Kerswill and Susan Fox 2006 Ethnicity as a source of changes in the London vowel system Language Variation – European Perspectives: Selected papers from the Third International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 3), Amsterdam, June 2005, Hinskens, Frans (ed.), pp. 249–263 | Article