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Accuracy

What does ‘good English’ even mean?

5 de novembro de 2018

“Your English is so beautiful.” – I sometimes hear, and I promise you I have a point in writing this, which is not that I’m a Leo (although I am). In fact, I’ve always been a bit reticent about those compliments about my English language proficiency, especially when they come from laypeople. I mean, we...Read More

Language Acquisition, Language testing & assessment, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language

Accuracy, assessment criteria, communicative competence, fluency, indigenous assessment criteria, research

Is Your English Fully Operational? – Accurate, Fluent and Fluid Speaking

24 de agosto de 2017

by Adriano Zanetti

Scarcella and Oxford (1992) mention that ‘a learner will basically need to develop competences in order to become proficient in an L2 – grammatical competence, socialinguistic competence, discourse competence and strategic competence.’ I bet that at the some point of your teaching career you have come across that student who wants to learn only to...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Speaking and Spoken Language

Accuracy, fluency, fluidity, speaking, speaking skills

On Fluency and Accuracy

20 de abril de 2015

by Edmilson Chagas

Although attempts to define ‘fluency’ and ‘accuracy’ when speaking a foreign language abound in the specialized literature, there still does not seem to exist a consensus regarding a single, ultimate definition of either one of the terms. One of the reasons which could partly explain the lack of common ground among authors is the very...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Speaking and Spoken Language

Accuracy, fluency, language chunks, vocabulary

Lexical Mathematics 2: The Soul Behind The Face

24 de abril de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

Collocation Competence – fluency and accuracy hand in hand There is a number of reasons why a sound knowledge of collocations is desirable, especially for more advanced learners. Hill (2000) relies on collocations to explain that language consists largely of pre-fabricate chunks of lexis. Therefore, not only is the accurate and appropriate use of collocations...Read More

Vocabulary

Accuracy, colocations, fluency, lexical features and challenges, lexical items, mental lexicons, quality exposure, teaching vocabulary

Learning to Grammar

3 de abril de 2014

by Dominic Walters

Three private students of mine recently proclaimed that they believed they had become less fluent since the beginning of our lessons a little over two months ago. They were naturally preoccupied given that they were paying good money to improve their English. Needless to say, I had to put their minds at ease, and it...Read More

Grammar, Skills

Accuracy, fluency, grammar, skills, teaching

Extracting a lot from a little II: “A relaxing cup of café con leche”

25 de fevereiro de 2014

by Ben Goldstein

This is the second of my posts which focus on drawing big conclusions from small details of language use. In the previous one we saw how the minimum of text, when combined with the right kinds of images, can generate a lot of different activities. This time round, we’re going to look at the intense,...Read More

Resources

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