9/10/2010
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Fluency is the prime goal in processes of teaching and learning. Both learners and teachers are sometimes falsely driven by language-foci and forms, and generally forced to ignore Fluency and ultimate goals of messages.
Reality tells us that learners are always confused and limited in their chaos and clumsiness. They need teachers to navigate their paths and scaffold them as much as possible. I believe that a teacher's responsibility is to enforce competency and skills by engaging fluency drills. Fluency drills such as gambit activities and readers' theater are effective when new knowledge and concepts are introduced and bridged.
Fluency drills can be done through the four macro-skills--listening, reading, speaking and writing. These drills are meant to be repetitious and easy. The easier the activities, the more effective and enjoyable learners may experience. Not only repetition empowers practical performances, consciousness and wakefulness of information and experiences, but also links students with pragmatic discourse of reality of life.
Rehearsing new contents in different ways optimize learners' capability to think critically and to enrich personal arts of performing practical tasks, yet teachers need to guide them through communicative and cognitive approaches.
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