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Fostering Fluency in 2nd Language Learning - IceCream - 2012-04-16 i'm not sure if this has been posted before, but anyway: http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Fostering_fluency_in_second_language_learning It's a bunch of studies about which methods are helpful, and in what ways, to 2nd language learners. It's primarily focused on speech fluency. The studies involved look at methods such as repeating speeches in shorter spaces of time, shadowing, learning short formulaic parts of sentences, etc. Unfortunately, the shadowing results aren't out yet, but the rest is interesting to read. There's also some pilot studies on producing a story from picture books... that's quite a nice idea, i hadn't thought of that one before, though i guess it's fairly limited. Anyway, yeah, seeing exactly which parts of fluency each method helps is interesting, and helps with understanding the limitations of each too. Fostering Fluency in 2nd Language Learning - Splatted - 2012-04-16 Thanks IceCream this sounds interesting, I'll definitely check it out.