Fluency in reading--Thirty-five years later

Paul Nation's talents and interests extend well beyond vocabulary to include research on speaking, writing, classroom learning and teaching, reading, and fluency. In keeping with Nation's interests in fluency, extensive reading, and reading instruction, I outline current perspectives on re...

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Published in:Reading in a foreign language 2010-04, Vol.22 (1), p.71-83
Main Author: Grabe, William
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Classrooms
Educational psychology
English
Fluency
Language Acquisition
Linguistics
Literacy
Native language
Pointing
Reading Comprehension
Reading Fluency
Reading Instruction
Reading Rate
Reading Research
Reading-writing relationship
Researchers
Role
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
Second language reading
Second language writing
Second Languages
Skills
Speed Reading
Teacher Educators
Teaching
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Summary:Paul Nation's talents and interests extend well beyond vocabulary to include research on speaking, writing, classroom learning and teaching, reading, and fluency. In keeping with Nation's interests in fluency, extensive reading, and reading instruction, I outline current perspectives on reading fluency and its role as a key component of reading comprehension abilities. This discussion will include the rapidly increasing importance being given to reading fluency, extensive reading, and reading speed training in English as a first language (L1) contexts in the past decade. While this extraordinary growth in fluency research in English L1 contexts might not be well known to many second language (L2) practitioners, it offers many implications for L2 reading research and instruction (and Nation is one of very few L2 researchers to have been out ahead of this curve). The article will also address reasons why fluency research studies often do not demonstrate extraordinary gains in reading comprehension outcomes, pointing to the incremental nature of both fluency and reading comprehension development. Finally, the article will connect messages consistently advocated for by Nation over the past 35 years with current views on reading fluency.
ISSN:1539-0578
1539-0578