Title: Second language speech fluency : from research to practice /
Authors: Tavakoli, Parvaneh; Wright, Clare, 1966-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Second language acquisition; Fluency (Language learning); Fluency (Language learning); Second language acquisition
Abstract: Second language (L2) fluency is an exciting and fast-moving field of research, with clear practical applications in language teaching. This book provides a lively overview of the current advances in the field of L2 fluency, and connects the theory to practice, presenting a hands-on approach to using fluency research across a range of different language-related professions. The authors introduce an innovative multidisciplinary perspective, which brings together research into cognitive and social factors, to understand fluency as a dynamic variable in language performance, connecting learner-internal factors such as speech processing and automaticity, to external factors such as task demands, language testing, and pragmatic interactional demands in communication. Bringing a much-needed multidisciplinary and novel approach to understanding the complex nature of L2 speech fluency, this book provides researchers, students and language professionals with both the theoretical insights and practical tools required to understand and research how fluency in a second language develops.
Contents: Fluency from a psycholinguistic perspective -- Measuring fluency -- Fluency in L2 task-based research -- Fluency in second language pedagogy -- Fluency in second language testing -- Fluency in different contexts.