Exploring EFL Fluency in Asia

Muhammad M. M. Abdel Latif, Institute of Educational Studies, Cairo University, Egypt Andrew Atkins, Kinki University in Osaka, Japan Philip Shigeo Brown, Konan Women's University, Japan Junko Matsuzaki Carreira, Tokyo Keizai University, Japan Andrew Finch, Teachers' College of Kyungpook National University, Korea Sue Fraser, Seisen Jogakuin College and Shinshu University, Japan Carol Goldfus, Levinsky College of Education, Israel Mu He, Chongqing Normal University, P.R. China Steven Herder, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto, Japan Tomohito Ishikawa, Soka Women's College, Japan Steven Kirk, University of Tokyo, Japan Theron Muller, University of Toyama, Japan Tim Murphey, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan Paul Nation, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Sakae Onoda, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan Jason Peppard, Yamagata University, Japan Michael Rost, Teacher Trainer, USA Gregory Sholdt, Kobe University in Japan Ya-Chin Tsai, National Chiayi University, Taiwan Rob Waring, Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama, Japan.

• An Introduction to Exploring EFL Fluency in Asia; Theron Muller and Philip Shigeo Brown PART I: FLUENCY IN CURRICULUM 1. Developing Fluency; I. S. P. Nation 2. Employing a Fluency-Based Approach to Teach the TOEFL iBT: An Action Research Project; Steven Herder and Gregory Sholdt 3. Scaffolding Participating, Agencing Friending and Fluencing; Tim Murphey 4. Fluency through Attitude Change; Andrew Finch 5. A Lexicogrammatical Approach to Fluency; Jason Peppard PART II: SPEAKING FLUENCY 6. Addressing Spoken Fluency in the Classroom; Steven Kirk 7. An Exploration of Effective Teaching Approaches for Enhancing the Oral Fluency of EFL Students; Sakae Onoda 8. The Influence of Intentional Reasoning on EFL Fluency Using Tasks; Tomohito Ishikawa PART III: WRITING FLUENCY 9. Implementing and Evaluating Free Writing in a Japanese EFL Classroom; Theron Muller 10. Assessing Fluency: A Framework for Spoken and Written Output; Sue Fraser 11. Recent Developments in Writing Fluency Measurement; Muhammad M. M. Abdel Latif PART IV: READING FLUENCY 12. Building Fluency with Extensive Reading; Rob Waring 13. Extensive Reading and Students' Academic Achievement: A case study; Mu He 14. Improving Reading Fluency: An Investigation into Timed Reading; Andrew Atkins 15. Improving Fluency in EFL Reading Comprehension in Adolescents with Learning Difficulties; Carol Goldfus PART V: LISTENING FLUENCY 16. Developing Listening Fluency in Asian EFL Settings; Michael Rost 17. How Can We Enhance EFL Learners' Listening Fluency? Teaching Connected Speech to Japanese University Students Using Songs; Junko Matsuzaki Carreira 18. Does Autonomous Listening Increase Fluency?; Ya-Chin Tsai ?

“The editors are to be commended for having engineered this interplay, and the evidence is plain to see that it was a worthwhile strategy. … they do an excellent job of revealing the range of perspectives on fluency and put these perspectives into a coherent framework within the wider field of language learning in general. The volume is more than the sum of its parts and constitutes essential reading for anyone involved with teaching in Asia.” (Michael Carroll, JALT Journal, Vol. 37 (2), November, 2015)“This book compiles studies on four-skill fluency conducted in secondary, tertiary and experimental programmes in the Asian English as a foreign language EFL context. Its aim is to address students’ concerns with fluency and communicative efficiency. … This book presents a shift away from pre-defined fluency and opens up various ways to (re)think about fluency. ... In this wide-ranging book, researchers broaden what is a winning approach to fluency and fluency-research paradigms.” (Melissa H. Yu, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, April,2018)