Emerging topics in fluency research - ECSF.
B2: Can understand the themes of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics and will have achieved a degree of fluency and spontaneity, which makes interaction with native speakers.
Research (Pinnell et al., 1995) suggests that reading fluency is a crucial factor among 4th grade students, but it can also be an important issue beyond the elementary grades. I recently worked with a group of colleagues from Kent State University to examine the fluency of high school students in an urban setting. We found that variations in the reading fluency of these students accounted for.
Effects of the Fluent Reader Program on the Fluency Rates of a High School ESL Class An Action Research Paper By Eileen DeGregoriis July 2006. Fluent Reader and ESL 2 Abstract With the English Language Learners’ population rapidly growing in our schools, administrators and teachers alike feel inadequate and uninformed on how to provide effective instruction for these students. One of the.
The importance of research on writing fluency lies in that it can inform us about the difficulties students have in written text production. Despite such importance, fluency has been given peripheral attention in writing research. Therefore, what we mean by writing fluency and how it can be validly assessed has yet to be decisively answered. As Bruton and Kirby (1987) put it.
Fluency refers to how well a learner communicates meaning rather than how many mistakes they make in grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. Fluency is often compared with accuracy, which is concerned with the type, amount and seriousness of mistakes made.
What is fluency? - The ability to read or write at a comfortable pace without undue hesitation which could impact on meaning or understanding.
Research clearly indicates that motivation is a huge factor in a student’s ability to learn a second language. I mean, that’s just common sense, right? Some students may come to your class intrinsically motivated and require very little from you to build interest. Others will require a large degree of extrinsic motivation, and you may need to be creative to find out what excites them.