Abstract

In my paper I’m going to talk about the significance of teaching skills and fluency in schools.
Particularly I’m going to talk about what is more important skill or fluency. Some people think that it is more important to teach skills when other think that fluency is more important. I moved to United States almost two years ago. I knew English before; actually I studied it from the first grade in school. I had a lot of skill, but I was lacking fluency, because I never had a lot of speaking practice. For about a month I couldn’t even watch TV, because I couldn’t understand what they were talking about. But after a little while I could understand everything! My mom, on the other hand, did not have a lot of skills in English, and sometimes she still having troubles in understanding people. So I think in order to become fluent in something you have to build a foundation, and that foundation is skill. Lisa Delpit in her essay “Skills and Other Dilemmas of a Progressive Black Educator”, bring up an issue of teaching fluency and skills. She realizes that teaching skills is very important because you can only be literate if you are skilled.