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Inputlog 6.0 provides insights into analyzing pause and fluency during typing activities. It highlights the significance of interkey intervals and pausing behavior, examining the differences among various populations, including students and the elderly. The research identifies multiple dimensions of fluency through various indicators, linking cognitive processes with typing performance.
Research on Writing: Multiple Perspectives
2014
The advance of computer input log and screen-recording programs over the last two decades has greatly facilitated research into the writing process in real time. Using Inputlog 4.0 and Camtasia 6.0 to record the writing process of 24 Chinese EFL writers in an argumentative task, this study explored L2 writers' pausing patterns in computerassisted writing settings and how their pausing patterns related to writing time allocation, writing fluency, and text quality. Results suggest that while the skilled writers allocated significantly less time to the prewriting stage, they paused significantly longer yet less frequently than the less-skilled group in this stage; however, the two groups displayed no significant difference in pause frequency or duration in the composing stage. Text quality was found to correlate positively with prewriting pause duration and writing fluency but negatively with the prewriting time. Web search and dictionary use were identified as important extra writing activities that gave rise to the observed time allocation and pausing patterns. These findings suggest that computer-assisted L2 writing has features distinct from pen-and-paper writing and that L2 writers need to be informed of how to coordinate and regulate writing resources in an electronic environment.
Proceedings of Fonetik, 2003
Earlier studies of pauses and associated prosodic boundary marking in text reading have been extended with respect to individual variability. The main part of the study pertains to text reading from a novel. A study of news bulletins tapped from the Internet was added. The main difference found was considerably shorter pauses between complete sentences in the reading of news reports than in the novel text. The five subjects involved in the novel reading showed consistent and different individual patterns of pause duration within complete sentences but more similar pause duration between sentences. The overall data collected support our quantal theory of speech timing. Special attention has been devoted to the influence of sentence length on pauses between sentences and total pause silence within sentences. Implications of our findings in prosody rules will be discussed in a separate article.
BRILL eBooks, 2007
It is well known that the cognitive cost of programming motor movements in writing can be considerably high if execution is not automatized. However, it is not clear how this cost might affect the on-line production of a written text, namely the distribution of pauses vs. execution periods. Narratives were collected using ScriptLog. Keystroke interval within a word was measured and used to distinguish between fast typistsfor whom execution was presumably automatic, and slow typists-for whom execution required attention. The relative distribution of pauses vs. execution periods between two consecutive pauses was examined. Results showed that the time ratio between pauses and execution differs between groups. Relative to fast typists, slow typists make more pauses, and have shorter execution periods. These results are discussed in light of two phenomena: the trade-off between execution and formulation processes, and the adoption of serial vs. parallel ways of composing.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Writing words in real life involves setting objectives, imagining a recipient, translating ideas into linguistic forms, managing grapho-motor gestures, etc. Understanding writing requires observation of the processes as they occur in real time. Analysis of pauses is one of the preferred methods for accessing the dynamics of writing and is based on the idea that pauses are behavioral correlates of cognitive processes. However, there is a need to clarify what we are observing when studying pause phenomena, as we will argue in the first section. This taken into account, the study of pause phenomena can be considered following two approaches. A first approach, driven by temporality, would define a threshold and observe where pauses, e.g., scriptural inactivity occurs. A second approach, linguistically driven, would define structural units and look for scriptural inactivity at the boundaries of these units or within these units. Taking a temporally driven approach, we present two methods which aim at the automatic identification of scriptural inactivity which is most likely not attributable to grapho-motor management in texts written by children and adolescents using digitizing tablets in association with Eye and Pen © (Chesnet and Alamargot, 2005). The first method is purely statistical and is based on the idea that the distribution of pauses exhibits different Gaussian components each of them corresponding to a different type of pause. After having reviewed the limits of this statistical method, we present a second method based on writing dynamics which attempts to identify breaking points in the writing dynamics rather than relying only on pause duration. This second method needs to be refined to overcome the fact that calculation is impossible when there is insufficient data which is often the case when working with young scriptors.
Reconceptualizing English Language Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century A Special Monograph in Memory of Professor Kai-chong Cheung, 2018
Pauses in speech have traditionally been seen as signs of a lack of fluency. However, some pauses are necessary and helpful to the listener, and only certain pauses create an impression of disfluency. Comparisons of different speakers have provided indirect evidence that pause location plays a key role in fluency, showing that fluent speakers pause less within clauses than those who are less fluent. However, few studies have addressed the effects that pauses of different lengths and at different locations have on the listener. That is the topic of this study, which compares objective measurements with listener perceptions of pausing in the same L2 speech samples. Using recordings and transcripts of seven Taiwanese students engaged in conversation with their teacher, pauses were measured using Praat software, while separately two listeners were asked to mark transcripts where they noticed pauses in the recordings. Comparisons between the two analyses showed a clear interaction between pause detection, on the one hand, and pause length and location on the other, with long pauses, and those occurring within clauses, being noticed more than shorter pauses and those coming between clauses. The longest undetected pauses were those occurring between clauses, while the shortest pauses to be noticed tended to be those within clauses. These findings provide direct evidence that pause location is the key to understanding how pauses affect fluency, and show why pause frequency and pause time are not valid measures of fluency if pause location is not also considered. Another important finding is that minimum length thresholds for pauses should vary according to pause location.
Studies in Writing, 2007
It is well known that the cognitive cost of programming motor movements in writing can be considerably high if execution is not automatized. However, it is not clear how this cost might affect the on-line production of a written text, namely the distribution of pauses vs. execution periods. Narratives were collected using ScriptLog. Keystroke interval within a word was measured and used to distinguish between fast typistsfor whom execution was presumably automatic, and slow typists-for whom execution required attention. The relative distribution of pauses vs. execution periods between two consecutive pauses was examined. Results showed that the time ratio between pauses and execution differs between groups. Relative to fast typists, slow typists make more pauses, and have shorter execution periods. These results are discussed in light of two phenomena: the trade-off between execution and formulation processes, and the adoption of serial vs. parallel ways of composing.
Scientific and social research, 2023
In this paper, the concept of pause patterns is analyzed within two aspects of speech, namely reading aloud and spontaneous speech. While reading aloud, much of the planning gets done by the speaker in preparing the text. As a result, the speaker becomes more fluent and does not need to take pauses (except at grammatical junctures). However, during spontaneous speech, pauses are much longer than reading and often more frequent because of hesitation aloud which results in disfluencies, false starts, repetition, and so on. This study explores the pause patterns in reading and spontaneous speech. The participants of this study consisted of 8 undergraduate students at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology. Data was collected through recording the students reading aloud and giving spontaneous speeches. The collected data was then analyzed. The results of the analysis showed that there is not much difference in the pattern of pauses while reading aloud and during spontaneous speech for those who are fluent in English.
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