SPEECH FLUENCY IN PHRASES: TEACHING ENGLISH ORAL FLUENCY IN DISTANCE LEARNING
Keywords:
fluency, L2 teaching, chunks, formulaic sequences, highfrequency phrasesAbstract
The aim of the present article is to highlight the role of fluency for communication and defend the attention that it should be given within the foreign language classroom. The article presents a study on material designed as part of a project from the European Union Lifelong Learning Programme (Conversational Fluency in Phrases: Fluency for Conversational Interaction (FluenCi) 505023-LLP-1-2009-1-IE-KA2-KA2MP) led by a team of researchers from the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), and the UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia). The main objective of the project was to address English language learners' problems with perceiving and producing high-frequency phrases of spoken language which increase fluency.
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