Principle Four ~ Promote Fluency Development
The fourth
principle focuses teacher time on the development of
fluency, where students develop faster access to
already known lexis and larger lexical chunks.
Fluency Activities
Ways to develop fluency include repeatedly meeting known and partially known words:
Fluency Activities
Ways to develop fluency include repeatedly meeting known and partially known words:
- through regular review.
- in communicative tasks and course materials.
- in integrated tasks in which students study a single topic through a variety of reading, listening, speaking, and writing activities.
- while engaged in narrow reading and listening on the same topic.
- while reading, speaking and/or listening extensively, sometimes under time pressure.