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Speaking Fluency: 7 ESL Activities That Build Speed

Seven speaking fluency activities — the 4-3-2 technique, fluency lines, shadowing, read-and-look-up, timed retelling, running dictation, and hot topics — consistently build the automaticity that English learners need to speak without stopping to translate. Unlike general speaking tasks, each of these targets the gap between knowing grammar and producing language in real time. Most ESL…