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- Title
The Authors Respond….
- Authors
Gatbonton, Elizabeth; Segalowitz, Norman
- Abstract
The article presents the authors' comments on a review of his article published in the journal "TESOL Quarterly." The authors feel that the promotion of other aspects of fluency may result from their proposed activities. Even though most training activities are likely to affect more than one aspect of skill development, many of these other aspects of fluency skills can be boosted by activities such as debates, interviews, problem solving, reading, and writing activities. According to the authors, by limiting themselves to a narrower definition of automaticity, they concentrate on their primary concern: whether one can promote within a communicative context the sort of production automaticity that one usually sees as requiring pattern drill training. The authors assert that the reason for choosing a narrow definition of automaticity lie in facilitating the creation of automatization activities for the classroom. Another reason for emphasizing on the narrow definition is that it facilitates operationalizing automaticity for research purposes.
- Subjects
FLUENCY (Language learning); PROBLEM solving; LANGUAGE acquisition; DECISION making; ELOCUTION; LITTERATEURS; CAREER development; STUDENTS; VOCABULARY
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 1989, Vol 23, Issue 2, p366
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3587361