[Mr. E English]

At elementary level I focus the language learning on accuracy. The students don't have enough language to worry about fluency.

I continue this through pre-intermediate level and then start introducing fluency activities, e.g. discussions and debates, at the end of pre-intermediate and start of intermediate levels when the students are reasonably independant language users.

Intermediate is a mix, accuracy and fluency, with the focus shifting to fluency as students advance.

Having said this, however, there are still plenty of times when advanced students need to work on their accuracy - most often done as remedial presentations in error correction sessions. Also, elementary students need to do fluency work - a drill practice, for example, while focusing mainly on accurate production of speech, is also at the same time working on fluency - albeit fluency over a short spoken production at syntax level.