She spent 13 months at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., which is designed to bring language students up to fluency in a short time.
As one who can speak seven languages on various levels -- from order-a-meal proficiency to fluency -- I have had a thousand experiences abroad of enormous goodwill, prompted by even the most fumbling attempts to speak the local language.
Elvis Presley was also a little vague on Shakespeare — "You know, someone said that the world's a stage and each must play a part" — but politicians, who turn to the aperçus of others as a shortcut to fluency, are probably the world's premier manglers of the Bard, and of everyone else.
These studies show that when students are afforded the opportunity to formulate their ideas and have some forethought and preparation, they can direct their attention to fluency and complexity and show an improvement on these two dimensions of language performance.
Teachers need tools that are easy to use and have a low barrier to fluency.
The lack of a specific link to fluency raises the possibility that treating temperamental factors per se may not have an impact on fluency.
Learning a language in the home as an infant and toddler is the easiest route to fluency.
You can now build up to fluency.
Steinberg's book gives readers an important tool: the ability to accelerate the journey from financial paranoia to financial fluency in a practical way.
In regards to verbal fluency, in a previous study exploring verbal retrieval/fluency in older adults with acquired sensorioneural hearing impairment, no significant association between hearing loss and category fluency performance was found, but this association was present in letter fluency, 46 suggesting a less flexible phonology in subjects with hearing loss.
For instance, Heim et al. (2009) found that, phonological relative to semantic fluency had a greater modulatory effect on the interactions between BA 44, BA 45, and the motor region M1.
