Oral fluency in teaching english as a second language: state of the art

Abstract

This work intends to describe different researches related to oral fluency, in which the concepts and theories are presented while the state of the art to determinate aspects that can be important and very useful to develop communication among Colombian students, with an acceptable oral fluency in students of English as a second language. The main objective in this research is to characterize the concept and the importance of improving the speaking fluency in the English learning process. The method to make it possible is by taking into account the strategies found in the most remarkable researches about the topic and to generate analyses about some of the best strategies to improve the oral fluency in the students. Also, the state of the art shows important aspects and tools that can be very helpful to rethink or design strategies and methods to help learners improve this aspect, as confidence and creativeness. Finally, the conclusions include some pedagogical implications that are important elements to know and analyze how oral fluency in English learners could be analyzed and taught.