Fluency is the property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise. Fluency indicates a very good information processing speed, i.e. very low average time between successively generated messages. A person is defined by philosophers as a being who is in possession of a range of psychological capacities that are regarded as both necessary and sufficient to fulfill the requirements of personhood. ... System (from the Latin (systēma), and this from the Greek (sustēma)) is an assemblage of entity/objects, real or abstract, comprising a whole with each and every component/element interacting or related to at least one other component/element. ... Information is the result of processing, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the person receiving it. ... Expertise is the property of a person (that is, expert) or of a system which delivers a desired result such as pertinent information or skill. ...

Language fluency

Language fluency is proficiency in a language, most typically foreign language or another learned language. In this sense, "fluency" actually encompasses a number of related but separable skills: A foreign language is a language not spoken by the indigenous people of a certain place: for example, English is a foreign language in Japan. ...

• Reading: the ability to easily read and understand texts written in the language;
• Writing: the ability to formulate written texts in the language;
• Comprehension: the ability to follow and understand speech in the language;
• Speaking: the ability to speak in the language and be understood by its speakers.

A useful link in the context of spoken fluency in English: http://www.fluentzy.com/fluencyfacts.asp (Note: Commercial website, but with a lot of useful information on developing fluency in spoken English). Reading is a process of retrieving and comprehending some form of stored information or ideas. ... Scribe Writing Writing, in its most general sense, is the preservation and the preserved text on a medium, with the use of signs or symbols. ... For the Xscape song, see Understanding (song). ... Speech: (n. ...

To some extent, these skills can be separately acquired. Generally, the later in life a learner approaches the study of a foreign language, the harder it is to acquire auditory comprehension and fluent speaking skills. Reading and writing a foreign language are skills that can be acquired more easily after the primary language acquisition period of youth is over, however. This article is about compression waves. ...

Reading fluency

Reading fluency is often confused with fluency with a language (see above). Reading fluency is the ability to read text accurately and quickly. Fluency bridges word decoding and comprehension. Comprehension is understanding what has been read. Fluency is a set of skills that allows readers to rapidly decode text while maintaining high comprehension. For other senses of the word code, see code (disambiguation). ... Reading comprehension can be defined as the level of understanding of a passage or text. ... Look up understanding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

A first benchmark for fluency is being able to "sight read" some words. The idea is that children will recognize at sight the most common words in written English and that instant reading of these words will allow them to read and understand text more quickly. Also, since there are many common English words that are so irregular according to the rules of phonics, it is best to get children to just memorize them from the start. For example, try sounding out these words: "one", "was", "if", "even", or "the". Sight reading is the reading and performing of a work—typically, a piece of music, but also linguistic text—without having seen it before. ... For the study of sounds and speech sounds, see Acoustics and Phonetics. ...

As children learn to read, the speed at which they read becomes an important measure.

See also

• Linguistics
• Precision teaching