Second Language Speech Fluency
From Research to Practice

A fresh, comprehensive perspective on L2 speech fluency, making cutting-edge research and methods approachable and useful in practice.

Parvaneh Tavakoli (Author), Clare Wright (Author)

9781108499613, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 December 2020

250 pages
23.6 x 16 x 1.5 cm, 0.5 kg

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.

1. Introduction
2. Fluency from a psycholinguistic perspective
3. Measuring fluency
4. Fluency in L2 task-based research
5. Fluency in second language pedagogy
6. Fluency in second language testing
7. Fluency in different contexts
8. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Teaching of students with English as a second language [TESOL JNSV], Applied linguistics for ELT [EBAL], Language teaching & learning [other than ELT CJ]