This presentation explores how language teachers can integrate fluency assessment into classroom instruction to support students' speaking development. Drawing on her research, she will introduce a structured assessment tool designed to measure fluency in both monologic and dialogic tasks. Through practical examples, she will demonstrate how this tool can be used to inform teaching practices, provide targeted feedback, and help students improve their fluency in meaningful communicative contexts.

Presenter
Dilara Dikilitas is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University (NAU), where she also earned her M.A. in TESL-Applied Linguistics. She completed her B.A. in TEFL at the Middle East Technical University. Dilara has taught novel and advanced-level English Composition classes at NAU, served as a tutor in the university’s writing center, and led the Lumberjack Writing Center tutors as a team leader. Additionally, she has assisted in teaching the Language in Society class. Her research interests include the development of speaking in EFL contexts, assessment of speaking, vocabulary learning and its impact on L2 oral production, and formulaic language use in L2 speech.

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