In Search of Fluency: What is it and How Can we Teach It?

By David A. Wood. 2001

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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PHONOLOGICAL MEMORY PREDICTS SECOND LANGUAGE ORAL FLUENCY GAINS IN ADULTS (2007, background): “…of temporal aspects of speech, such as speech rate, pauses ~frequency, placement, location, and length!, run length between pauses, and so forth ~see Wood, 2001, for a review!+ There is empirical evidence that quantitative measures of fluency improve with the length of time that participants…”
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN L1 FLUENCY AND L2 FLUENCY DEVELOPMENT (2009, background): “This interpretation of fl uency is distinct from the notion of fl uency as overall profi ciency (Chambers, 1997 ; Lennon, 1990 ; Skehan & Foster, 1999 ; Trofi movich & Baker, 2006 ; Wood, 2001 ).”
Developing Accuracy and Fluency in Spoken English of Chinese EFL Learners. (2014, background): “By means of such automaticity, learners reduce the time pressure and cognitive load (McLaughlin & Heredia, 1996) and thus increase their speaking fluency (Wood, 2001; Wood, 2004; Zhou & Wang, 2007).”
Second Language Fluency: Judgments on Different Tasks (2004, background): “As a number of researchers have observed (Chambers, 1997; Guillot, 1999; Schmidt, 1992; Wood, 2001), not only is the term fluency difficult to define, but it has a wide range of definitions associated with it.”
Raising language awareness in peer interaction: a cross-context, cross-methodology examination (2012, background): “This meant that although the delivery time did not change, the amount of information they needed to communicate kept increasing, pushing them to speak faster as the activity developed (see, for more details, Sato & Perry, 2011 and see, for similar activities, Nation, 1989; Wood, 2001).”
Fluency Training in the ESL Classroom: An Experimental Study of Fluency Development and Proceduralization (2011, methodology): “The instructional technique that is the focus of the present study was specifically designed for oral fluency development: the fluency workshop, or 4/3/2 procedure (Arevart & Nation, 1991; Maurice, 1983; Nation, 1989; Wood, 2001).”
The Effectiveness of Drama as an Instructional Approach for the Development of Second Language Oral Fluency, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness (2017, background): “To help learners reach this goal, it is essential for teachers to provide explicit instruction with a focus on the development of L2 oral fluency (henceforth L2 fluency) and pronunciation (Wood, 2001).”
Spoken fluency revisited (2010, background): “Automaticity: this addresses the ability of the speaker instantaneously and effortlessly to retrieve units of speech, including words, prefabricated phrases and/or whole clauses (Fillmore, 1979; Rehbein, 1987; Gatbonton and Segalowitz, 1988; Towell et al., 1996; Chambers, 1998; Wood, 2001, 2006).”