Word Finder - fluency

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The quality of smoothness of flow.

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The quality of being fluent in a language; A person's command of a particular language.

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The quality of consistently applying skill correctly in the manner of one well-practiced at it, requiring little deliberate thought to perform without mistakes

This time he made so much progress that in two years he read Greek and Latin with fluency and interest.

The goal is verbal fluency.

You will achieve a greater fluency in every day English.

Although most research indicates that it often takes seven years for ELLs to attain full English fluency, the new federal law allows these children only three years before they must take standardized tests in English.

Studies have shown that children with very active fantasies tend to have personality traits that contribute to creativity-originality, spontaneity, verbal fluency, and a higher degree of flexibility in adapting to new situations.

Printable spelling lists are used in school to help children learn words, to develop fluency when reading and to help develop proficient writing skills.

For a game that lacked any fluency, it wasn't half exciting.

Using verbal fluency to disguise a lack of comprehension.

Spanish language fluency on your part is a plus.

High Noon reading fluency is a four level program designed to give students the extra practice they need to help build fluency in reading.

Cursed with such immoderate fluency Lydgate could not sustain himself at the highest level of artistic excellence; and, though imbued with a sense of the essentials of poetry, and eager to prove himself in its various manifestations, he stinted himself of the self-discipline necessary to perfection of form.

He had been the pupil both of Theophrastus and of Demetrius Phalereus, and had early acquired a certain fluency and versatility of style.

She had a French governess, however, and at a later day picked up some Italian, German and Swedish, and could converse in these languages with more fluency than accuracy.

Having educated himself by unremitting exertions, and acquired fluency of speech as a Methodist local preacher, he founded in 1872 the National Agricultural Labourers' Union, of which he was president.

His father, a Genoese, who had established himself as a grocer and had married a Frenchwoman named Massabie, is said to have been his son's prototype in vigour and fluency of speech.

His eloquence, while sensational, was real and striking, and his fluency and the picturesqueness of his language and imagery were remarkable.

Their courtesy and dignity of manner are very striking, and are combined with ease and a fluency of discourse.

Rhymes and singing may help a child to achieve fluency - many children do not stammer when they sing.

High levels of folate were significantly linked to verbal fluency.

The transition between comprehension and fluency is gradual.

Struggling readers can benefit from selecting subjects that interest them paired with guided reading activities that can help transition from determining meaning to comprehension and eventually to fluency.

For stuttering and other fluency disorders, a popular treatment method is fluency training, which develops coordination between speech and breathing, slows down the rate of speech, and develops the ability to prolong syllables.

Stutterers are different than people experiencing normal fluency problems because a stutterer's disfluency is more severe and consistent than that of people who do not stutter.

Electronic fluency aids help some stutterers when used as an adjunct to therapy.

However, hand or wrist twisting can reduce legibility and writing fluency.

These tests are designed to measure divergent thinking, such as fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.

There are 220 words that children should learn to achieve fluency in reading the English language.

One of the biggest obstacles kids have to understanding the main idea of a passage is reading fluency.

Integrating both writing and reading practice, build on fluency when you start teaching comprehension skills.

Rosetta Stone offers a five level Spanish curriculum that will carry your child through the grade levels with an overall goal of fluency.

It should be noted that Rosetta Stone's first product lines were not so much geared toward the academic community, but more toward generating fluency.

The fourth and fifth levels of the Spanish curriculum impart the elements of true fluency.

Rosetta Stone works to accomplish such fluency through the use of images, video clips and opportunities for a student to engage in computerized conversations.

This website exclusively lists professional job openings throughout Sweden for individuals seeking positions that require fluency in English.

The Vampire Diaries took advantage of her fluency in Bulgarian by writing her character Katherine's history as being set in early Bulgaria.

Exposure to French is very important to continued growth in French proficiency, as well as to increasing one's fluency in the language.

While you won't gain real fluency, you can use this and other programs to get a quick foundation or to brush up on the French that you learned years and years ago.

Don't expect advanced fluency, but do expect to be able to ask plenty of questions while interacting with francophones.

Go on to a more advanced course, such as Rosetta Stone or the advanced Pimsleur system after completing this one in order to achieve full fluency in French.

Tolkien is credited with knowledge and fluency in Latin, French, German, Welsh, Finnish and Old Norse.

He was a member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1789-1790, and of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1790, 1791, and 1792, and rose with surprising rapidity, despite his foreign birth and his inability to speak English with correctness or fluency.

Galen was a man furnished with all the anatomical, medical and philosophical knowledge of his time; he had studied all kinds of natural curiosities, and had stood in near relation to important political events; he possessed enormous industry, great practical sagacity and unbounded literary fluency.

He also excelled as a speaker, particularly at gatherings of an international character, for in addition to his native German he could speak English, French and Italian with fluency.

A Republican party had been formed led by a few professors and coffee-house politicians, with the mob of the towns for its support, and having as its mouthpiece Don Emilio Castelar, an honest man of Qepublican incredible fluency.

It's incessant Lions pressure but the backs have yet to attain the fluency required to beat the All Blacks.

In order to acquire fluency some performers have found it helpful to restrict the number of chakras initially.

Students whose first language is not English must show evidence of a high standard of both written and spoken fluency.

The class concentrates on improving fluency through discussion of social issues.

But their oral fluency may mask difficulties with formal, academic English.

I applied to Oxford because the four-year course and the emphasis on linguistic fluency promised a deeper access to the ancient world.