How to use “Cool Edit Pro 2.1” to measure L2 oral fluency

Abstract

The software “Cool Edit Pro 2.1” has long been considered and used as a music editor, and very few people know its application in English learning and teaching research. In this paper, in order to measure the second language learners' oral fluency, the reseracher tries this software in an empirical study and proves that “Cool Edit Pro 2.1” can measure the second language learners' oral fluency very accurately and efficiently. The research has up to now provided the readers with the most accurate and time-saving way of measuring temporal indices in L2 oral fluency, and this study reveals the tendency of the development of L2 oral fluency for Chinese non-English majors in the classroom setting and the evidence proves that the use of lexical chunks facilitates L2 oral fluency significantly. With the help of the software“Cool Edit Pro2.1”, the study explores linguistic features of oral fluency and provides the momentum to reach English fluency.