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xxii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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 learning motivation and limitations in learners' productive skills. This volume explores fluency in all fours skills (speaking, writing, reading and listening) and through a number of different perspectives to build upon existing research and to expand the fluency discussion to include consideration of classroom strategies for fluency development in EFL contexts. The definition of fluency as a trait of speaking is expanded to encompass all four language skills in an effort to illustrate its importance to all aspects of language learning. This volume includes a mixture of literature review chapters outlining the research paradigm for ongoing fluency research and empirical investigations into fluency development and measurement in the EFL classroom, making it relevant to both researchers and practitioners of EFL.
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.
edited by Theron Muller, University of Toyama, Japan, John Adamson, University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan, Philip Shigeo Brown, Konan Women's University, Japan and Steven Herder, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto, Japan.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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