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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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.