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Developing Listening Fluency in Asian EFL Settings

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The term fluency is often used in relation to the language abilities of speaking, reading, and writing, though much less frequently in relation to listening. Listening would appear to be the one modality in which the language user does not have any control over speed or smoothness, the kind of characteristics that are most often associated with fluency. How then can the concept of fluency even be associated with listening?

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  • Language Teaching
  • Fluent Speech
  • Authentic Text
  • Listening Behavior
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    Theron Muller

  2. University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan

    John Adamson

  3. Konan Women’s University, Japan

    Philip Shigeo Brown

  4. Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto, Japan

    Steven Herder

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Rost, M. (2014). Developing Listening Fluency in Asian EFL Settings. In: Muller, T., Adamson, J., Brown, P.S., Herder, S. (eds) Exploring EFL Fluency in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137449405_17

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