2021
DOI: 10.7575/aiac.alls.v.12n.1.p.59
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Attrition of Oral Communicative Ability among English Language Graduates in Turkey

Abstract: This study explored the relationship between the period of Turkish EFL (English as a Foreign Language) graduates’ not using English as well as their ages with the attrition of their oral communicative ability. The study also indicated the language maintenance strategies the Turkish EFL graduates pursue to prevent the attrition of their oral communicative ability. To investigate the issues, the present study used a quantitative design and the convenience sampling. The participants included 153 Turkish graduates… Show more

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“…In addition, it is not necessary to keep the matrix parallelism of all the frames and the matrix components, because only three networks of the previous line are used in the calculation counts for each network point in each row. e combined use of these two functions can reduce computing and storage space [14].…”
Section: Dynamic Time Warping (Dtw) Recognition Algorithmmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition, it is not necessary to keep the matrix parallelism of all the frames and the matrix components, because only three networks of the previous line are used in the calculation counts for each network point in each row. e combined use of these two functions can reduce computing and storage space [14].…”
Section: Dynamic Time Warping (Dtw) Recognition Algorithmmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unlike the present study, they examined the attrition of graduate students who learned multiple and consecutive foreign languages rather than focusing on one. Valizadeh (2021) and Zinyuk and Waiti (2021) conducted the two most relevant studies. Walizadeh (2021) investigated the relationship between age, language attrition, and language maintenance, which also became the researchers' proposition in this study.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%