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Author(s) -

Tricia Hedge

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

elt journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.876

H-Index - 55

eISSN - 1477-4526

pISSN - 0951-0893

DOI - 10.1093/elt/47.3.275

Subject(s) - fluency , linguistics , psychology , competence (human resources) , linguistic competence , communicative competence , slowness , phonetics , pedagogy , mathematics education , social psychology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics

The term fluency has acquired two rather different meanings in ELT. The first is similar to a typical dictionary entry. For example, 'fluent' is defined by Chambers Concise Dictionary as 'able to speak and write a particular language competently and with ease.' In this meaning it is normally restricted to language production, and in ELT it is normally reserved for speech. It is the ability to link units of speech together with facility and without strain or inappropriate slowness or undue hesitation. Faerch, Haastrup, and Phillipson (1984) include fluency as a component of communicative competence, and define it as 'the speaker's ability to make use of whatever linguistic and pragmatic competence they have.' They distinguish three types of fluency:

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