By the time he played on his first recording session in 1957, for the Prestige album "Coltrane," bebop had become an orthodoxy, and the challenge wasn't fluency so much as flexibility within the style.
Yet even they could not find fluency, and when they tried to accelerate, both fell.
Where foreign tourists throng to goggle at splashy entertainments that do not require fluency in the English language.
The court has gotten its collective feet wet, clearly, but in the world of platforms, applications, source codes and interfaces, familiarity may not be fluency.
Unlike, say, Michael Cera – his weedier, creepier doppelganger – he's one of those rare actors who can project real intelligence (not just fluency or intensity).
In his previous two games, league victories over Kilmarnock and Hibs, there had been some improvement in attitude and diligence, if not in fluency and creativity.
The hope was that two weeks of immersion, while living with a French family, might lift us to a new level of competence, if not absolute fluency.
But if teachers focused more on collective readings and less on strategies that do not improve fluency while clarifying content, scores might rise regardless of the passages offered on standardized tests.
Yet your article missed another much more significant point: schooling in a foreign language does not imply fluency in a foreign language, especially as "American", "British" or "French" schools and universities with poorly trained teachers proliferate across the region.
Word frequency influenced verb naming, but not verb fluency, performance.
