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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 9h

If you prefer reading a more concise version of what this study was all about and what we discovered, check out our 1-page OASIS summary of it (open access of course)! www.oasis-database.org/details/mhmm... #FDF2 #FlowLangGroup

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · 10h

Happy to announce that our article (w/ Sandra Götz & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social) exploring L1 & L2 speech #fluency in monologue + dialogue is now out in SSLA (OA)! Part of the recently completed #FDF2 project (funded by the Research Council of Finland). #FlowLangGroup @utu.fi doi.org/10.1017/S027...

The Impact of L1 Speaking Style, Task Mode, and L2 Proficiency on L2 Fluency: A Within-subject Study of Monologic and Dialogic Speech | Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Cambridge Core

The Impact of L1 Speaking Style, Task Mode, and L2 Proficiency on L2 Fluency: A Within-subject Study of Monologic and Dialogic Speech

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Aug 7

Noticed today that the DiSS 2025 proceedings have been published! www.isca-archive.org/tmp/diss_202... Lots of interesting papers included (all open access). Glad I could contribute to this disfluency annotation initiative led by Trouvain, Crible, Belz, & Betz: www.isca-archive.org/tmp/diss_202...

ISCA Archive

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Jun 29

Finally, #FlowLangGroup member Maarit Mutta @maaritmutta.bsky.social presented our work combining data from #FDF2 and #KISUVI projects, to examine learners' written and spoken profiles in the L1 + L2 and their anxiety during these tasks. Thanks again to the audience! #EuroSLA34 @koneensaatio.fi

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Jun 29

Elina Lehtilä (#FlowLangGroup member and #ILFACT project researcher) did a very impressive job in summarizing her whole PhD and its four substudies in a 20-minute presentation on Friday morning 👏 #EuroSLA34

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Jun 29

On Thursday, me & Clare Wright had the pleasure of presenting a new framework for studying fluency in interaction based on data from two projects (one of them being #FlowLangGroup #FDF2 that ended last year). Thanks to the audience for the discussion and feedback! #EuroSLA34

(📷: Magdalena Szyszka)

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Jun 29

#FlowLangGroup was well represented at #EuroSLA34! On Friday, we presented the aims, methods, and work packages of the #ILFACT project (funded by the Research Council of Finland). Thanks to everyone who stopped by!

(Me on the left, Elina Lehtilä on the right. Photo by @maaritmutta.bsky.social)

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Jun 26

’Language learning is impressive’ – The starting point for the second keynote at #EuroSLA34 by Patrick Rebuschat.

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Jun 26

#EuroSLA34 has kicked off in Tromsø with Theres Grüter’s plenary on prediction as a mechanism for (L2) learning! 👏

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Jun 18

Thanks Sara, hope to see you at the next one indeed! 😊

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Jun 18

Preparations for #EuroSLA34 are in full swing! Picked up our ILFACT poster today from the printer & excited to showcase it next week in Tromsø!

Come and check it out during Poster session II ✨
➡️ When? Friday 27th, at 3 pm
➡️ Where? Solhallen (TEO-H1 U1.803)

#FlowLangGroup @eurosla.bsky.social

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Jun 17

‌Yesterday we had the pleasure to present a part of the ILFACT project focusing on eye-tracking at the "Show what you got!" day organized by the Turku EyeLabs @utu.fi. Thanks to the audience for the helpful tips & interesting presentations on on-going/planned eye-tracking research! 🙏 #FlowLangGroup

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Jun 13

Congrats to Veijo Vaakanainen who defended his PhD dissertation ”Dynamik och kontrast i konnektorbruket hos finska inlärare av L2-svenska” successfully today @utu.fi! Grattis 👏

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Jun 11

Want to know more about the ILFACT project (funded by the Research Council of Finland) and our recent data collection trip to Marburg, Germany? Read more in our blog post, just published in the Department of English blog EnglanTY @utu.fi! blogit.utu.fi/englishturku...

International collaboration facilitates research on interactional fluency ← EnglanTY

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · May 23

Enjoying my time in Germany to the fullest! This week: complementary data collection, meeting w/ a Parisian colleague in Cologne + giving a guest lecture in Marburg. Also got to follow a lecture on intercultural communication by Loy Lising (in the middle in the 📷), as she was also visiting Marburg!

Sandra Götz, Loy Lising and Pauliina Peltonen (me) on a coffee break.

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · May 15

The #ILFACT data collection in Marburg this week was a success! So grateful for all the local help we received 🙏 To the wonderful student participants: thank you for contributing to fluency research!

(In the 📸: ILFACT collaborator Sandra Götz, project researcher Saara Naapila & me) #FlowLangGroup

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · May 8

Greetings from Germany! Next week, the #ILFACT project data collection continues at Philipps-University Marburg. Preparations are well under way and I’m looking forward to meeting local students on Monday! #FlowLangGroup

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Apr 14

Kiinnostaako, millaista vuorovaikutuksen sujuvuuteen liittyvää tutkimusta teemme viime syksynä käynnistyneessä Suomen Akatemian rahoittamassa ILFACT-hankkeessa? Lue lisää tänään ilmestyneestä Hiiskuttua-lehden jutusta 🎉 ⬇️ sites.utu.fi/hiiskuttua/v...

Vieraskielisen vuorovaikutuksen sujuvuuden tutkimusta

Turun yliopiston kieli- ja käännöstieteiden laitoksella englannin oppiaineessa syksyllä alkanut Vieraskielisen vuorovaikutuksen sujuvuus eri konteksteissa (ILFACT) -hanke tuo sujuvuustutkimukseen uusi...

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Dr Duygu Candarli @duygucandarli.bsky.social · Apr 11

📢 We're organising the Language Testing Forum 2025 at the University of Southampton.
📝 Submit your abstracts by 11 July 2025!
👉 For more information, please visit the LTF2025 page: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n... #LTF2025 #languageassessment

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Apr 11

In the innovative 5th article of our forthcoming special issue on #fluency for IRAL (eds Peltonen & Wright), Daphnée Simard & colleagues combine analyses of perceived L2 fluency, working memory and affective factors (enjoyment + anxiety). Happy reading! 🎉 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Perceived L2 oral fluency, working memory, foreign language enjoyment and foreign language anxiety: identifying distinct patterns of relationship

L2 oral fluency is a core aspect of general oral proficiency. However, it represents a distinct challenge for L2 speakers as it requires a real-time efficient allocation of cognitive resources. Specif...

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Mar 11

This 4th article (by Elina Lehtilä & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social) of the forthcoming IRAL special issue on #fluency introduces a methodologically innovative combination of speech fluency analysis and eye movement data. A new way to examine utterance & cognitive fluency among multilingual speakers!

Pekka Lintunen @pekkalintunen.bsky.social · Mar 5

Just published: Elina Lehtilä's excellent study on multilingual speakers' fluency, with eye-movement data providing extra insights into cognitive fluency. Thank you for the funding The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland! #leala #FlowLangGroup
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Individual differences in multilingual speakers’ fluency: a qualitative analysis of speech and eye-movement data

The present study aims to examine individual differences in the connections between first (L1), second (L2), and third language (L3) utterance fluency and to investigate the potential of eye-tracking ...

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Mar 11

The 3rd article of our forthcoming special issue on #fluency for IRAL has been published online! In this article, Ghadah Albarqi examines L1 Arabic learners of English and provides important insights into speech fluency especially at lower levels of proficiency.
doi.org/10.1515/iral...

Speech fluency among L1 Arabic elementary and intermediate learners of English as a foreign language

This study examines the fluency of L1 Arabic learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) across two proficiency levels – elementary and intermediate, corresponding to A2 and B1 of the Common Europ...

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · Nov 20

Looking forward to #psynom24.. for #bilingualism folks there, please reach out if you want to be included in this group..

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Feb 28

The 2nd article of our forthcoming special issue on #fluency for IRAL (eds Peltonen & Wright) is now available ahead of print! A highly welcome addition to the growing body of research on affective factors and fluency by Magdalena Szyszka & @pekkalintunen.bsky.social, based on #FDF2 project data.

Pekka Lintunen @pekkalintunen.bsky.social · Feb 20

Just published by our #FlowLangGroup - Magdalena Szyszka investigates the relationship between L2 utterance fluency and trait-like L2 Willingness to Communicate (WTC). www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Exploring the interplay of trait-like L2 willingness to communicate, international posture, language anxiety and fluency in monologue L2 speech

Willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC) refers to the readiness to initiate speech and is influenced by psychological, linguistic, and contextual factors contributing to both stable a...

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Pauliina Peltonen @pauliinapeltonen.com · Feb 19

#multilingual #landscape spotted in Lleida, Spain last week. ❤️

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