“What
is the most important thing to achieve English fluency?”
Tip #1
Andy Boon
“Give students a purpose to speak/write. Help them find the
language to break the silence/empty page. Then, build from there.”
Tip
#2
Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto
“Focus on a bit of language that interests you, practice until you know it, and then use it until you own it.”
Tip
#3
Cecilia Lemos
“Let go of self-consciousness; speak as much as you can. We make many mistakes when speaking our L1, but that doesn’t stop us from speaking.”
Tip
#4
Chuck Sandy
“Practice builds
accuracy. Accuracy builds confidence. Confidence builds fluency.”
Tip
#5
David Deubelbeiss
“The
language must matter, be important-real and not an exercise. Interact with
messages you genuinely want to hear and understand.”
Tip
#6
David Dodgson
“Engage with
English everywhere-music, books, games, signs, t-shirt slogans – make notes
& take it back to class, share, & collaborate!”
Tip
#7
Drew Badger
“Learn like native speakers and you’ll
speak like one.”
Tip
#8
Eric Kane
“Learning to communicate in a new
language is fun when you collaborate with others. Create a network and
celebrate your successes.”
Tip
#9
Fiona Mauchline
“Willingness to take a leap into the
unknown, geographically, personally, linguistically (experiment, make
mistakes). Accuracy’s another story.”
Tip
#10
Jack Askew
“Know why you want to reach fluency, set
a goal, make a plan, and take consistent action every day.”
Tip
#11
Jason West
“Don’t waste your time, hope and money on
a classroom course. Prepare properly and do focused speaking practice with
friendly non-teachers.”
Tip
#12
Jennifer Lebedev
“A language learner must commit to a
realistic study plan that makes use of quality resources and allows for
meaningful practice.”
Tip
#13
Juan Alberto Lopez Uribe
“The #1 thing to achieve fluency is to
live language through meaningful and dynamic interactions in a caring,
challenging, and interesting environment.”
Tip
#14
Ken Beare
“Be patient, make many mistakes, speaking
every day for fifteen minutes is better than once or twice a week, use
your ear and your brain.”
Tip
#15
Kevin Stein
“Fluency requires automaticity which
requires familiarity. Practice language you know. Because fluency =
confidence to take the next step.”
Tip
#16
Larry Ferlazzo
“Students need to feel safe to make
mistakes & realize errors are wonderful learning opportunities and not
something to be avoided.”
Tip
#17
Luke Meddings
“Fluency isn’t the same as accuracy.
Hesitation, reformulation and non-standard grammar are part of everyday
English, so relax – it’s normal!”
Tip
#18
Mau Buchler
“You have to find out what kind of
English speaker you are.”
Tip
#19
Michael Marzio
“Smartest starting point is intensive
listening on very regular basis, with pictures or video providing some
semblance of context or meaning.”
Tip
#20
Minoo Short
“Fluency is about building reflexes, and
reflexes are built by listening to and repeating common collocations and
phrases.”
Tip
#21
Nik Peachey
“You need to have a reason to learn that
will impact your life.”
Tip
#22
Paul Maglione
“You can’t learn a language unless you
start by maximizing your input. Hearing and seeing leads to understanding, then
skills building, and finally proficiency.”
Tip
#23
Philip Shigeo Brown
“Know what kind of fluency you wish to
achieve then take decisive steps to move towards your goal, stay motivated, and
enjoy getting in flow.”
Tip
#24
Rachel Smith
“Repetition!”
Tip
#25
Rob Howard
“Just express yourself! Speak up and say
what you feel to make your opinion understood as precisely and easily as
possible.”
Tip
#26
Scott Thornbury
“Learn some useful sentence starters. Act
as if you are fluent, even if you’re not. Use your hands.”
Tip
#27
Sean Banville
“Read, listen to, talk or write about
things you are really interested in, things you love to read, listen to,
etc. in your own language.”
Tip
#28
Shelly Sanchez Terrell
“We learn language by communicating with
others. Connect on the World Wide Web with other language learners!”
Tip
#29
Stephen Krashen
“The only way to develop fluency is to
get plenty of compelling comprehensible input. Comprehensible input is the
cause: Fluency is the result.”
Tip
#30
Steven Herder
Data and determination – Decide to focus
on your fluency. Record yourself, count words per minute and track your
progress – you’ll improve!”
Tip
#31
Sylvia Guinan
“Learn though multi-media, multi-sensory,
hands-on social fun.”
Tip
#32
Tyson Seburn
“Involving yourself with the language at
every appropriate opportunity helps build awareness and confidence needed for
fluency.”
Tip
#33
Vicki Hollett
“What’s #1 to achieve fluency?
M-O-T-I-V-A-T-I-O-N-!”
Tip
#34
Vicky Loras
“In my opinion, fluency comes with
repetition and listening to speakers of the L2 all the time around you!”
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