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\n[www.alls.aiac.org.au](www.alls.aiac.org.au)  \n| Prosody as a Tool for Assessing Reading Fluency of Adult ESL Students\u003Cbr>Seftirina Evina Sinambela*\u003Cbr>English Applied Linguistics Program, State University of Medan, Indonesia\u003Cbr>Corresponding Author: Seftirina Evina Sinambela, E-mail: [sefti.nambela@gmail.com](sefti.nambela@gmail.com) |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| ARTICLE INFO | ABSTRACT\u003Cbr>The prosodic features in reading aloud assignment has been associated with the students’decoding skill. The goal of the present study is to determine the reliability of prosody for assessing reading fluency of adult ESL students in Indonesia context. The participants were all Indonesian natives, undergraduate students, adult females and males who have learned English in school (at the very least twice a week) for more than 12 years. Text reading prosody was assessed by reading aloud task and the students’ speaking manner was taped and measured by using the Multidimensional Fluency Scale, as for text comprehension was assessed with a standardized test. It was discovered by the current study that prosody is a reliable sign to determine reading fluency and also reading comprehension. The student who did not read the text prosodically (with appropriate expression) actually showed that he/she failed to comprehend the text. This study also revealed that a struggling reader was also having low comprehension capacity in listening spoken texts. The ESL students’ common problems to acquire prosodic reading skill are low exposure to the target language and do not have a good model to imitate prosodic reading. |\n| Article history\u003Cbr>Received: September 05, 2017\u003Cbr>Accepted: October 18, 2017\u003Cbr>Published: December 30, 2017\u003Cbr>Volume: 8 Issue: 6\u003Cbr>Advance access: December 2017 |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None\u003Cbr>Funding: None |  |\n| Key words:\u003Cbr>Prosody, Reading Fluency, Students, Comprehension |  |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nProsody is the melody of our language. Some anthropologists have even claimed that our melodious speaking manner is possibly served as the origin of music itself (Simpson, Oliver, & Fragaszy, 2008) . Prosody is important because it really matters how a sentence is spoken. Prosody is the variety in pitch (intonation), patterns of accentuation, and also speaking duration that present a text expressive reading (Allington, 1983; Dowhower, 1991; Schreiber, 1980, 1991) . Once these characteristics are existing and acceptable in oral reading assignment, the reader is reading prosodically, or “with expression” or communicatively.  \nAn essential task in fluent reading is to provide the characteristic of prosody in a text, even though they are not visually present (Schreiber, 1980) . Some studies suggest that prosody is a sign of comprehension, and prosodic reading is a bench mark for reading fluency, but most of the studies in prosody have been conducted on English speaking participants, with elementary grade students as their subjects.  \nThis study investigated the function of prosody in reading comprehension and reading fluency. The research subjects are 10 adult ESL undergraduate students, Indonesian nativespeaker who has learned English for more than 12 years. Although they are all adult who capable to read well, they often  \nread a text word by word with a monotonous voice without good articulation. This is a characteristic of struggling reader. A fluent reader should be able to read with appropriate prosody since it confirms that reader comprehends his readings (Kuhn &Stahl, 2000) .  \nWith this assumption, these students supposedly unable to comprehend the text thus they cannot answer the questions related to the given texts. But in this particular class, they were able to answer most of the multiple choice questions correctly. Is it possible that for an adult ESL student, the prosody reading does not necessarily relate to comprehension? In the current study, the researcher will observe stu","cbCaiuEiPt8K3JiS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuEiPt8K3JiS","pdf",576499,"English","# Introduction\n# Literature Review\n## Prosody","[{\"question\":\"How does the study evaluate reading prosody and reading fluency?\",\"answer\":\"Reading aloud is used to assess text reading prosody, while speaking performance is recorded and measured with the Multidimensional Fluency Scale.\"},{\"question\":\"What relationship does the study find between prosody and comprehension?\",\"answer\":\"Prosody is reported as a reliable sign for reading fluency and reading comprehension, and lack of appropriate prosodic reading is associated with failure to comprehend the text.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the study use reading aloud in its design?\",\"answer\":\"Reading aloud is chosen to reduce tension about what to say, help students focus on speaking manner, and provide a safe practice environment, including support for visual learners.\"}]","Prosody as a Tool for Assessing Reading Fluency of Adult ESL Students | PDF",1792068033,13]