F is for Fluency
Jeremy Harmer recently asked – on Twitter – for opinions as to why some learners achieve high degrees of fluency, while others do not. I wanted to reply that any answer to that question depends on how...
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What lessons can psychology teach us about second language instruction? In a recent book on the psychology of second language acquisition, Zoltán Dörnyei (2009) draws six practical implications from...
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I have a debt to repay. Sometime in the late eighties I attended a talk given by Stephen Gaies (the then editor of TESOL Quarterly) at the North American Institute in Barcelona. The topic was fluency....
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