Second Language Speech Fluency

From Research to Practice

Clare Wright author Parvaneh Tavakoli author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:17th Dec '20

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

Presenting an innovative multidisciplinary perspective on L2 fluency research, this book provides applied linguistics researchers and students with an up-to-date comprehensive review of how fluency in a second language develops. Language educators and assessment professionals will also benefit from the accessible approach to theories and methods.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.

ISBN: 9781108499613

Dimensions: 236mm x 160mm x 15mm

Weight: 500g

250 pages