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What does “repair fluency” mean?

repair fluency

Oh, that's an interesting one —

So "repair fluency" is a term used in language learning research. It's about how smoothly a speaker can fix their own speech — like when you start a sentence wrong, stop, and say it again correctly. Those little restarts, repetitions, or corrections are called "repairs."

I actually didn't know this term before, but I heard about it from someone talking about language learning. When I first saw it, I thought "repair" here meant fixing something broken — and honestly, that's pretty close! You're fixing a mistake while you're speaking.

Researchers say there are three types of fluency: speed fluency (how fast you talk), breakdown fluency (how often you pause or get stuck), and repair fluency (how well you handle those mid-speech corrections).

So basically — repair fluency measures how naturally you fix yourself when speaking a new language.

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