Second Language Speech Fluency (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108499613)

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.

Author: Parvaneh Tavakoli, Clare Wright
ISBN-10: 1108499619
ISBN-13: 9781108499613
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2020
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d