Selected bibliography on Second Language Fluency

Arevart, S. and Nation, P. (1991). Fluency improvement in a Second Language.
RELC Journal, 22, 1, 84-94

Bialystok, E. (1990). Communication Strategies: A Psychological Analysis of Second Language Use.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Clark, H. H., and Fox Tree, J. E. (2002). Using uh and um in spontaneous speaking. Cognition, 84, 73–111.

Chafe, W.L. (1980). Some reasons for hesitating. In H.W. Dechert and M. Raupach, eds., Temporal Variables in Speech, 49-60.  The Hague: Mouton.

Chambers, F. (1998). What do we mean by fluency? System, 25, 4: 535-544.

Dechert, H.J. (1980). Pauses and intonation as indicators of verbal panning in second language speech productions: Two examples from a case study. In H.W. Dechert and M. Raupach, eds., Temporal Variables in Speech, 271-285. The Hague: Mouton.

Dechert H.W. and Raupach, M.  (1980). Temporal Variables in Speech, 271-285. The Hague: Mouton.

Deese, J. (1980). Pauses, prosody, and the demands of production in language. . In H.W. Dechert and Raupach, M., eds., Temporal Variables in Speech, 271-285. The Hague: Mouton.

DeKeyser, R. (1991). Foreign language development during a semester abroad. In B. F. Freed (ed.), Foreign Language Acquisition: Research and the Classroom, Lexington, Mass.:
D. C. Heath.

Derwing, T.M., Rossiter, M., Munro, M.J., and Thomson, R.I. (2004). Second Language Fluency: Judgments on different tasks.  Language Learning, 54, 4: 655-679.

Ejzenberg, R. (1992). Understanding nonnative oral fluency: The role of task structure and discourse variability. Ph.D. diss., State University of New York, Albany.
Fillmore, C. J. (1979). On Fluency.  In C. Fillmore, D. Kempler, and W. S-Y. Wang, eds., Individual Differences in Language Ability and language behavior (pp. 85-101). New York: Academic Press.

Freed, B. (1995a). Language Learning and Study abroad. In B. Freed, ed., Second Language Acquisition in a study abroad context, 3-33.  Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Freed, B. (1995b). What makes us think that students who study abroad become fluent?  In
B. Freed (ed.) Second language acquisition in a study abroad context (pp. 123-148). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.  

Freed, B.F., Segalowitz, N., and Dewey, D. P. (2004). Context of learning and second language fluency in French: Comparing Regular Classroom, Study Abroad, and Intensive Domestic Immersion Programs. Studies in Second Language Acquisition,26, 2: 275-301.  

Ferguson, G.A. (1971) Statistical analysis in psychology and education, 3rd Edition. New York: McGraw Hill

Gatbonton, E. and Segalowitz, N. (1988). Creative automatization: Principles for promoting fluency within a communicative framework.  TESOL Quarterly, 22, 3: 473-492.

Gatbonton, E. and Segalowitz, N. (2005). Rethinking Communicative Language Teaching: A Focus on Access to Fluency. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 61, 3: 325- 353.

Goldman-Eisler, F. (1961).  The distribution of pause duration in Speech. Language and Speech 4: 232-237.

Goldman-Eisler, F. (1968). Psycholinguistics: Experiments in spontaneous speech. New York: Academic Press.

Griffiths, R. (1991). Pausological research in an L2 context: A rationale, and review of selected studies.  Applied Linguistics 12, 4: 345-364.

Grosjean, F. (1980). Linguistic structures and performance structures: Studies in pause distribution. In Dechert, H.W. and Raupach, M. (Eds.), Temporal variables in speech (pp. 271-285). The Hague: Mouton.

Guillot, M.-N. (1999). Fluency and its Teaching.  Clevedon: Multilingual Matters

Guntermann, G. (1995).  The Peace Corps experience: Language learning in training and in the field. In Freed, B. ed., Second Language Acquisition in a study abroad context,
149-169.  Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Huebner, T. (1995). The effects of overseas language programs: report on a case study of an intensive Japanese course.  In Freed, B. ed., Second Language Acquisition in a study abroad context, 171-193.  Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Kowal, S. and O’Connell, D.C. (1980). Pauseological research at Saint Louis University. In Dechert, H.W. and Raupach, M., eds., Temporal Variables in Speech, 61-68. The Hague: Mouton.

Lafford, B. (1995). Getting Into, Through and Out of a Situation: A Comparison of Communicative Strategies Used by Students Studying Spanish Abroad and ‘At Home.’ In
B. F. Freed, ed., Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context, 97-121, Amsterdam /Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Lafford, B. (2004). The effect of the context of learning on the use of communication strategies by learners of Spanish as a second language.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 2: 201-225

Lennon, P. (1990). Investigating fluency in EFL: A quantitative approach. Language
Learning, 40, 3: 387-417.

Lennon, P. (2000) The lexical element in spoken second language fluency. In H. Riggenbach, ed.,  Perspectives on Fluency, 25-42. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press

Moehle, D. (1984). A comparison of the second language speech of different native
speakers. In Dechert, H.W. et al., eds., Second language productions, 26-49. Tubingen: Gunter Narr.

Ochs, E. (1979).Planned and unplanned discourse.  In Givón, T., ed., Discourse and Syntax, 52-80. New York: Academic Press.

Olynak, M., d’Anglejan, A. and Sankoff, D.. (1990). A quantitative and qualitative analysis of speech markers in the native and second language speech of bilinguals. In Scarcella, R., Andersen, R., and Krashen, S., eds., Developing communicative competence in a second language. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House.  

Oppenheim, N. (2000). The importance of recurrent sequences for nonnative speaker
fluency and cognition. In Riggenbach, H., ed.,  Perspectives on Fluency, 25-42. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press

Pawley, A. and Syder, F. H. (2000). The one-clause-at-a-time hypothesis. In H. Riggenbach, ed.,  Perspectives on Fluency,25-42. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press

Raupach, M. (1980). Temporal variables in first and second language speech production. In , H.W. Dechert and M. Raupach, eds., Temporal Variables in Speech, 271-285. The Hague: Mouton.

Raupach, M. (1983). Analysis and evaluation of communicative strategies. In C. Faerch and G. Kasper, eds., Strategies in interlanguage communication, 199-201.

Raupach, M. (1984). Formulae in second language speech production. Second language productions. Dechert, H. et al., 114-37. Tubingen: Gunter Nair.
Richards, J. C., Platt, J. and Weber, H. (1985). Longman dictionary of applied
linguistics. Harlow, Essex, England:

Riggenbach, H. (1989). Nonnative fluency in dialogue versus monologue speech: a microanalytic approach. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles.

Riggenbach, H. (1991). Toward an Understanding of Fluency: A Microanalysis of Nonnative Speaker Conversations Source  Discourse Processes, 14, 4: 423-441

Riggenbach, H. (2000) Perspectives on Fluency. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press

Ryan, J. M. and Lafford, B. (1992). Acquisition of lexical meaning in a study abroad environment: ser and estar and the Grenada experience. Hispania 75: 714-722.

Schmidt, R. (1992). Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Second Language Fluency. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 14, 357-385.

Segalowitz, N. (2000). Automaticity and attentional skill in fluent performance. In H. Riggenbach, ed., Perspectives on Fluency, 200-219. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Segalowitz, N. and Freed, B. F. (2004). Context, Contact, and Cognition in Oral Fluency Acquisition.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 173-199.

Shekhtman, B. and Leaver, B.L. with Lord, N., Kuznetsova, E., and Ovtcharenko, E.. (2002). Developing professional-level oral proficiency: the Shekhtman method of teaching communication.  In Shekhtman, B. and Leaver, B.L., eds., Developing professional-level language proficiency. Cambridge, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press.

Simões, A. (1996). Phonetics in second language acquisition: an acoustic study of fluency in adult learners of Spanish. Hispania, 79, 1: 87-95.

Temple, L. 1992. Dysfluency in learner speech.  Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 15, 1: 29-44

Towell, R., Hawkins, R., and Bazergui, N.. 1996. The development of fluency in advanced
learners of French.  Applied Linguistics 17, 1: 84-119.

VanPatten, B. (1987). Classroom learners’ acquisition of ser and estar: Accounting for developmental patterns. In VanPatten, B., Dvorak, T.R., and Lee, J.F. eds., Foreign language learning: A research perspective, 19-32. Cambridge: Newbury House.

White, M. J. and Li, Y. (1991). Second-language fluency and person perception in China and the United States, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 10, 2: 99-113.

Wood, D. (2001). In search of Fluency: What is it and how can we teach it? The Canadian Modern Language Review 57, 4: 573-589.