Fluency is often compared with accuracy, which is concerned with the type, amount and seriousness of mistakes made.
Example:
A learner might be fluent (make their meaning clear) but not accurate (make a lot of mistakes).
In the classroom:
Activities that help to develop fluency focus on communication, for example discussions, speaking games, presentations, task work such as projects and e-mailing.
Further links:
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-speaking-unit-9-fluency
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/fluency-activities-lower-levels
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/fluency-activities-higher-levels
Comments
Fluency
From what I understood, teachers must let students speak freely in order to develop fluency given the fact that the message being transmitted is more important than the accuracy of the message itself, but my question is What happens when students make mistakes and teachers don´t correct them and so students think they are speaking accurately? Is there a moment of mistakes´ corrections?
Feedback on speaking
Hi Kiddo22
This is a good question - you might find this article from our magazine useful: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/community/magazine/how-can-i-give-constructive-feedback-speaking-tasks
Cath
TeachingEnglish team
Fluency
Fluency is an important aspect of language proficiency as it reflects a higher level of command over a language. Achieving fluency requires practice, exposure to the language, and ongoing development of language skills through immersion, conversation, reading, and writing.
Fluency
It is true that language teachers usually mistake fluency for accuracy and perhaps that is the reason why they do not allow their students to move on without correcting each mistake they make. The idea to let the students speak and to refrain from correcting mistakes too often is really great.
It is more important to focus in the communication itself more than the errors students make while comunicating.