Exploring EFL Fluency in Asia

1. Introduction
Philip Shigeo Brown, Theron Muller

Part I. Fluency in the Curriculum

2. Developing Fluency
Paul Nation

3. Employing a Fluency-Based Approach to Teach the TOEFL iBT: An Action Research Project
Steven Herder, Gregory Sholdt

4. Scaffolding Participating, Agencing Friending and Fluencing
Tim Murphey

5. Fluency through Attitude Change
Andrew Finch

6. A Lexicogrammatical Approach to Fluency
Jason Peppard

Part II. Speaking Fluency

7. Addressing Spoken Fluency in the Classroom
Steven Kirk

8. An Exploration of Effective Teaching Approaches for Enhancing the Oral Fluency of EFL Students
Sakae Onoda

9. The Influence of Intentional Reasoning on EFL Fluency Using Tasks
Tomohito Ishikawa

Part III. Writing Fluency

10. Implementing and Evaluating Free Writing in a Japanese EFL Classroom
Theron Muller

11. Assessing Fluency: A Framework for Spoken and Written Output
Sue Fraser

12. Recent Developments in Writing Fluency Measurement
Muhammad M. M. Abdel Latif

Part IV. Reading Fluency

13. Building Fluency with Extensive Reading
Rob Waring

14. Extensive Reading and Students’ Academic Achievement: A Case Study
Mu He

15. Improving Reading Fluency: An Investigation into Timed Reading
Andrew Atkins

16. Improving Fluency in EFL Reading Comprehension in Adolescents with Learning Difficulties
Carol Goldfus

Part V. Listening Fluency

17. Developing Listening Fluency in Asian EFL Settings
Michael Rost

18. How Can We Enhance EFL Learners’ Listening Fluency? Teaching Connected Speech to Japanese University Students Using Songs
Junko Matsuzaki Carreira

19. Does Autonomous Listening Increase Fluency?
Ya-Chin Tsai

Keywords: Education, Language Education, Language Teaching, Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociolinguistics