@article{Ding_Yan_2023, title={The Study of Pauses in Oral Production from the Perspective of Language Proficiency}, volume={3}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijllc.3.6.2}, DOI={10.22161/ijllc.3.6.2}, abstractNote={<jats:p>This study analyzed the pauses of 20 EFL learners’ monologue recordings. Results indicate the group average of pause frequency is higher in the low-level group, which is manifested by the pause frequency at syntactic boundary. The group average proportion of silent pause duration between sentences is higher in the high-level group. The oral output of low-level group features smaller language units, more frequent times of pauses(mostly at non-syntactic boundaries), while the high-level group has longer language units, less frequent times of pauses and more silent pauses between sentences. The group average of pause frequency at non-syntactic boundaries of students’ oral production is negatively correlated with foreign language proficiency, and the average proportion of silent pause duration between sentences is positively correlated with proficiency.</jats:p>}, number={6}, journal={International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture}, publisher={AI Publications}, author={Ding, Cheng and Yan, Jing}, year={2023}, pages={7–15} }