Second Language Speech Fluency: From Research to Practice

Hardback

Main Details

Title Second Language Speech Fluency: From Research to Practice
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Parvaneh Tavakoli
By (author) Clare Wright
SeriesCambridge Applied Linguistics
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:250
Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 160
Category/Genre Languages
ISBN/Barcode 9781108499613
ClassificationsDewey:418.0071
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 17 December 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 Biography

Parvaneh Tavakoli is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading. Her research, which focuses on SLA, continuously aims to bridge the gap between research and professional practice, and has won awards from the British Council. Recent publications include her co-authored book, Task-based Language Teaching (co-authored with Faez, 2019). Clare Wright is Lecturer in Linguistics and Language Teaching at University of Leeds. She is currently President of EuroSLA, and has won awards from ESRC, BAAL and British Academy for her work in psycholinguistics. Recent publications include Mind Matters in SLA (2018), and Voices and Practices in Applied Linguistics (2019).