Exploring EFL fluency in Asia /

While individual teachers interpret fluency differently, most working in EFL agree that it has a considerable influence on the success or failure of students' language learning. In EFL contexts, the absence of fluency-based practice opportunities can lead to low self-confidence, low language le...

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Other Authors: Muller, Theron, 1977- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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505 0 |a Introduction / Philip Shigeo Brown and heron Muller -- PART I: FLUENCY IN CURRICULUM. 1. Developing Fluency / Paul Nation -- 2. Employing a Fluency-Based Approach to Teach the TOEFL iBT: An Action Research Project / Steven Herder and Gregory Sholdt -- 3. Scaffolding Participating, Agencing Friending and Fluencing / Tim Murphey -- 4. Fluency through Attitude Change / Andrew Finch -- 5. A Lexicogrammatical Approach to Fluency / Jason Peppard -- PART II: SPEAKING FLUENCY. 6. Addressing Spoken Fluency in the Classroom / Steven Kirk -- 7. An Exploration of Effective Teaching Approaches for Enhancing the Oral Fluency of EFL Students / Sakae Onoda -- 8. The Influence of Intentional Reasoning on EFL Fluency Using Tasks / Tomohito Ishikawa -- PART III: WRITING FLUENCY. 9. Implementing and Evaluating Free Writing in a Japanese EFL Classroom / Theron Muller -- 10. Assessing Fluency: A Framework for Spoken and Written Output / Sue Fraser -- 11. Recent Developments in Writing Fluency Measurement / Muhammad M. M. Abdel Latif -- PART IV: READING FLUENCY. 12. Building Fluency with Extensive Reading / Rob Waring -- 13. Extensive Reading and Students' Academic Achievement: A case study / Mu He -- 14. Improving Reading Fluency: An Investigation into Timed Reading / Andrew Atkins -- 15. Improving Fluency in EFL Reading Comprehension in Adolescents with Learning Difficulties / Carol Goldfus -- PART V: LISTENING FLUENCY. 16. Developing Listening Fluency in Asian EFL Settings / Michael Rost -- 17. How Can We Enhance EFL Learners' Listening Fluency? Teaching Connected Speech to Japanese University Students Using Songs / Junko Matsuzaki Carreira -- 18. Does Autonomous Listening Increase Fluency? / Ya-Chin Tsai. 
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