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This study aims to examine learners' perceptions through fluency evaluations among learners in academic-purpose Korean debating classes. For that, the discussion of 31 advanced learners was conducted fluency evaluations by fellow learners, and the debaters' utterances were transcribed and analyzed. The analysis results are as follows. First, regression analysis of factors that determine a debater's fluency shows that the variable that most influences the debater's fluency judgment is the frequency of use of the argument, and the proportion of non-fluent utterances is somewhat less influential than the frequency of use of the argument. Second, fellow learners judged debaters with low rates of non-fluent utterances to be linguistically fluent. This is different from previous research results that native language speakers judge foreign learners' speaking fluency by their speaking speed. Third, the factor that influenced the debater's judgment of content fluency was the frequency of use of the argument. Learners tend to perceive debaters who use arguments highly as fluent debaters. Fluent discussion speaking requires training for learners' ability to construct arguments, as in conventional discussions, and also involves speaking practice to reduce non-fluent speech. This study is valuable as a learner-focused study in that debating classes are paramount, and is significant in that they have discussed learners' fluency in a different direction from the study of learners' fluency judgments from the native language speaker's perspective.

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