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    non-fluent

    adjective

    • 1. not able to speak or write a particular foreign language easily and accurately: "non-fluent speakers of English"

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  2. www.accreditedlanguage.com › interpreting › defining-levels-ofDefining Levels of Language Proficiency Avoids Confusion

    Apr 15, 2020 · Translators, interpreters, and linguists define different levels of language proficiency with different terms: bilingual, fluent, proficient, native speaker, and others. But the terms used to define language proficiency are not strict and are often used loosely or interchangeably.

  3. www.bbc.com › future › articleHow do we measure language fluency? - BBC

    Sep 4, 2019 · An outsider overhearing a conversation in a foreign language only hears a fog of sounds, thus perceiving anyone who can cobble together a sentence as “fluent”.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › FluencyFluency - Wikipedia

    How orally fluent one is can therefore be understood in terms of perception, and whether these qualities of speech can be perceived as expected and natural (i.e., fluent) or unusual and problematic (i.e., non-fluent). Oral reading fluency is sometimes distinguished from oral fluency.

  5. ell.stackexchange.com › whats-the-opposite-word-of-fluentantonyms - What's the opposite word of "fluent"？ - English...

    Apr 22, 2021 · Someone who has some grasp of a language might not be "fluent", but we would probably just say they were "not fluent" or, if they were progressing, "not yet fluent". Other terms do exist for language spoken in a non-fluent way, such as "broken [language]", eg "they speak broken English".

  6. www.cambridge.org › core › booksNon-fluent and fluent aphasic speakers. What are the differences...

    Sep 22, 2009 · In this chapter we will review some studies that have highlighted the differences between fluent and non-fluent aphasia. A description of non-fluent aphasia was given in chapter 1, largely based on work of Goodglass and his colleagues.

  7. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullFluent or nonfluent? Part A. Underlying contributors to...

    Feb 27, 2020 · One of the most common ways of describing aphasia is by the fluency of language output. Defined broadly, fluency refers to the ease and speed with which a task can be completed. In language product...

  8. proofed.com › knowledge-hub › working-with-non-fluent-textsWorking with Non-Fluent Texts | Proofed Guides for Editors

    Aug 27, 2023 · The term non-fluent, when used to describe a written English text, describes content that is affected by spelling or grammatical errors that you would not generally find in fluent written English. This is most often due to English not being the writer’s first language.