Building Fluency – Antoine Marcq

Learning to speak a foreign language fluently is probably the holy grail of students and teachers alike. Most students find themselves either with strong accuracy and weak fluency or the opposite. They manage to develop their strong point well, often related to their type of character, but often struggle with their weak point. How can an introvert or a perfectionist develop fluency? How can a gamer or a YouTuber develop accuracy? As teachers, we need to help our students develop both accuracy and fluency harmoniously together. That is how our students can be successful. In this talk, I will present a simple and flexible approach to practice to solidly build our students up to fluency, and provide you with concrete activities you may easily use in class. This system is easily adaptable to any age, level, textbook or methodology. Join me and let’s build our students up to fluency together. Antoine Marcq has been teaching English and creating materials for 15 years. His students praise his results in building fluency, as well as his adaptability to their needs and goals. He now leads the Resource Education and the English Connection projects with Tom Wiseman. Their mission is to provide teachers with quality materials to make for more efficient lesson preparation for teachers and more effective lessons for students. Their aim is to provide teachers with the proper support they need and deserve to carry out their work in the best conditions. Support teachers! Students will greatly benefit from it! Content: 0:00 Introduction 2:35 What is fluently? 14:12 3 simple stages for fluency 19:05 Short Answer Race 28:43 Do/Does Race 32:20 Tense Build 36:25 Short Answer Race on Steroids 37:47 King of the Mountain 41:00 Convince 49:46 Shock 53:50 A simple framework for both reachers and students 1:00:24 Q&A