Titlebook: Exploring EFL Fluency in Asia; Theron Muller,John Adamson,Steven Herder Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers L

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Extensive Reading and Students’ Academic Achievement: A Case Study & Chen, 2009 for some notable exceptions), despite China representing the largest number of English language learners in the world. To further contribute to the literature on extensive reading in China, this chapter seeks to disseminate the results of an extensive reading program implemented at a public high school in Shanghai.

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Developing Fluency was ‘the ability to fill time with talk’ (p. 93). If we apply this sense to a wider range of skills than speaking, then fluency can be described as the ability to process language receptively and productively at a reasonable speed. In this chapter, this is the definition that I want to use, noting

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Employing a Fluency-Based Approach to Teach the TOEFL iBT: An Action Research Project teaching of fluency is often implicit or indirect, and even though fluency is mentioned in textbooks, fluency rarely gets the time and focus it requires for efficient learning, as described by Nation (2001).

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Fluency through Attitude Changescribe their students’ ‘typically negative experiences of compulsory language education’… ‘Coupled with the… often stated goal of becoming “fluent in English”’ (p. 2). Nation (Chapter 1) examines this issue from a whole-language perspective, seeing fluency as ‘the ability to process language recepti