Plan speaking practice for language fluency.
Conversation practice logs session time but produces far less speaking time, because in a two-way exchange you are listening for roughly half of it and often less with a talkative partner. Applying the active share turns a thirty-minute session into about fourteen minutes of production, which is the quantity that actually builds fluency and the reason speaking targets take longer than expected.
Active production
Active minutes per session = session length x active speaking share
Timeline
Weeks = target speaking hours / (active minutes x sessions per week / 60)
Structured tasks help — prepared monologues, presentations and describing images push it well above fifty percent, while free conversation with a fluent partner often falls below thirty.
For fluency and articulation, yes, and it is a legitimate way to raise volume cheaply. It does not develop the interactional skills of turn-taking and repair.