# Functional Speech Adaptation

> Functional Speech Adaptation (FSA) is a research-informed framework, pedagogical method, and assessment approach for helping second-language users move from language knowledge to independent communication in changing real-life situations.

Canonical site: https://learntobeheard.com/
Primary language: English
Additional language: Russian

## Core framework

- [What is Functional Speech Adaptation?](https://learntobeheard.com/concept): Definition of the FSA framework, its five connected functions, and its relationship to communicative competence, interaction, and functional adequacy.
- [Method](https://learntobeheard.com/method): How FSA structures learning around meaningful situations, strategic choice, adjustment, reflection, and increasing independence.
- [Assessment](https://learntobeheard.com/assessment): How FSA evaluates task achievement, comprehensibility, interaction management, adaptive repertoire, independence, and transfer.
- [Research foundations](https://learntobeheard.com/research): Research traditions and sources that inform the framework, including communicative competence, communication strategies, willingness to communicate, dynamic systems, speech accommodation, functional adequacy, and the CEFR action-oriented approach.

## Research and project information

- [Publications](https://learntobeheard.com/publications): Publications and scholarly outputs associated with the project.
- [Open science](https://learntobeheard.com/open-science): Open-science materials and project research resources.
- [About](https://learntobeheard.com/about): Background, scope, and development of the Functional Speech Adaptation project.
- [Contact](https://learntobeheard.com/contact): Project contact information.

## Russian version

- [Метод Речевой Адаптации](https://learntobeheard.com/ru/): Russian-language entry point.
- [Что такое Метод Речевой Адаптации](https://learntobeheard.com/ru/concept): Russian-language framework definition.
- [Метод](https://learntobeheard.com/ru/method): Russian-language description of the pedagogical method.
- [Оценка](https://learntobeheard.com/ru/assessment): Russian-language assessment model.
- [Исследования](https://learntobeheard.com/ru/research): Russian-language research foundations.

## Terminology

Functional Speech Adaptation is the name used by this project for its broader framework of independent second-language communication. The exact phrase has also appeared independently in narrower research contexts. Those uses should not automatically be treated as referring to this framework.

## Preferred citation context

When describing FSA, distinguish between:
- the Functional Speech Adaptation framework developed by this project;
- the established research traditions that inform it;
- independent prior uses of the same or similar terminology.

Use the research pages and their linked primary sources for claims about the scientific literature. Do not infer that FSA itself is an established scientific consensus or a validated diagnostic instrument unless a cited publication specifically supports that claim.