82-388 Understanding Second Language Fluency Units: 9.0 Department: Modern Languages Cross-listed: 82-878 Related URLs: http://hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/mode This course will explore the notion of second language (L2) fluency from various perspectives. The major objective of the course will be to help students develop an understanding of what it means to be "fluent" in a second language and to help them improve their OWN fluency. We will examine the notion of "fluency" itself and explore several of the common assumptions, definitions, contradictions and problems associated with the use of this commonly used term, in both first and second languages. Students will undertake a series of fieldwork projects in their second language. These projects will include explorations of native speaker perceptions of L2 fluency and analyses of how these subjective perceptions relate to actual features of language use. Students will analyze samples of their own L2 speech to see how their second language use coincides with commonly used references to fluency and ways in which they may improve their own language fluency.

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