Fluency Training in the ESL Classroom: An Experimental Study of Fluency Development and Proceduralization

Language Learning

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 533-568

  De Jong, Nel ^a   Perfetti, Charles A ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom research; English as a second language; Fluency training; Oral fluency; Proceduralization; Second language; Task repetition; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955851383     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2010.00620.x     Document Type: Article

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