The Role Of Fluency In Language Learning

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5.1 Introduction Research has proven that fluency not only is an important element of a successful reader, but also is a major component of the language learning curriculum. The researcher was very interested in conducting a study in this area and therefore chose to conduct a fluency study with pre intermediate readers in Azad university of Ahvaz. The strategy of ER was used with a selection of interesting book from pre intermediate leveled resources. The study was conducted for nine weeks during July to August 2014. Data was collected from the study and analyzed.

5.2 Conclusion Reading is one of the most important elements of Language learning. It is an aspect that needs special attention and instruction in EFL teaching. …show more content…

After listening to voice recorded in pre- test (Appendix C) of two groups, most of the experimental and some of the control group participants’ errors were with common in fluent reading with no attention to prosodic factors. It appears that these students do not have these factors mastered. Another error which was by these students was unknown words and they clearly did not have strategies in place to know how to figure it out and decoding words. It became evident that after treatment and post-test, control group had more difficulties in decoding words than the experimental group that we're able to read the passages fluently with much more ease and smoothness to their reading much earlier during each fluency practice. The researchers believe that the most significant success of the fluency strategy was that we're able to read authentic material passages with fun, enjoyment and interest in reading …show more content…

Methodologists devise some new methods in the world of Language teaching, which focus on all aspects of Language (intensive reading), without focusing on learners’ interest. Teaching reading skill via intensive materials is, to some extent different and more difficult than teaching reading via extensive materials. Extensive teaching approaches are more useful not only for teaching aspects of language, but also to make learners interested to improve their readings’ ability. Day and Bamford (1998) “the term extensively in referring to a large amount of reading with a focus on the meaning of the text” (pp.34). So, by regarding to above mentioned point this approach and method should be devised and applied in teaching reading

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