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This book brings together theoretical and empirical approaches to second language (L2) fluency and provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on the topic. The strength of the volume lies in its interdisciplinarity: the chapters approach fluency from non-traditional starting points and go beyond disciplinary boundaries in their contributions. The volume includes chapters investigating fluency from an L2 perspective and integrates perspectives from related fields, such as psycholinguistics, sign language studies and L2 assessment. The book extends the common foci and approaches of fluency studies and offers new perspectives that enable readers to evaluate critically existing paradigms and models. This encourages the development of more comprehensive frameworks and directs future L2 fluency research into new areas of L2 learning and use.

Fluency (Language learning) --- L2 assessment. --- L2 fluency. --- L2 pedagogy. --- L2 use . --- SLA . --- fluency in language learning and use. --- fluency. --- language use. --- listening skills. --- reading skills. --- second language acquisition. --- second language assessment. --- second language learning and use. --- second language learning. --- second language teaching. --- speaking skills. --- writing skills.

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Measuring Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition provides an examination of the background to testing vocabulary knowledge in a second language and in particular considers the effect that word frequency and lexical coverage have on learning and communication in a foreign language. It examines the tools we have for assessing the various facets of vocabulary knowledge such as aural and written word recognition, the link with word meaning, and vocabulary depth. These are illustrated and the scores they produce are demonstrated to provide normative data. Vocabulary acquisition from course books and in the classroom in examined, as is vocabulary uptake from informal tasks. This book ties scores on tests of vocabulary breadth to performance on standard foreign language examinations and on hierarchies of communicative performance such as the CEFR.

Language and languages --- Vocabulary --- Second language acquisition. --- Study and teaching. --- 800.7 --- Taalonderwijs. Taalverwerving --- Language and languages - Study and teaching. --- Language and languages -- Study and teaching. --- Vocabulary - Study and teaching. --- Vocabulary -- Study and teaching. --- Second language acquisition --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Study and teaching --- 800.7 Taalonderwijs. Taalverwerving --- Second language learning --- Foreign language study --- Language acquisition --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Diction --- Lexicology --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- L2 assessment. --- L2 vocab. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- Second Language Vocabulary. --- testing vocab knowledge. --- vocab knowledge. --- vocabulary aquisition. --- vocabulary.