Speaking English fluently (Part 2) [Archives:2006/924/Education]

By: Dr. Ramakanta Sahu
Fluency means an uninterrupted flow of language. When you speak a language with a flow without your speech getting broken in the middle, you can be called fluent in that language.

In order to be fluent you need to understand the theme of your talk clearly and have the ability to translate your ideas into idea-units. Idea-units are a potential springboard to ensure fluency in speech.

You can multiply your idea-units to generate a good amount of speech. And to multiply your idea-units efficiently, you need new words and word-groups. By substituting these instead of word or word groups already used, your speech can get a new flavor.

Generally when we speak, we speak about a person, place, thing, or an event. In other words, a part of idea-units contains a naming word which is called the Naming part. In the next part of the sentence we describe something about the person or place or thing which is called the Descriptive part.

In order to have a good stock of alternatives that can come in the paradigms of Naming part or Descriptive part, you need to acquire several action frames or word-groups, which are commonly used while we speak. For this you have to be an avid reader in English and a regular listener to English programs on the electronic media. While you read text materials in English or listen to English news or features, practise and develop an alert attention to the ways in which the naming part and the descriptive parts are organized. Such a habit would contribute to develop your language sense and enrich your language faculty in the brain which would lead to fluency in speech.

To sum up, select a Naming frame and try and generate numerous idea-units. Conjugation of different Naming Frames with different Action Frames is the key to speech generation.
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