A collection of cutting-edge studies on spoken language and applied linguistics written by leading teachers and researchers in the TESOL field

Spoken English, TESOL and Applied Linguistics: Challenges for Theory and Practice

Reference

HUGHES, REBECCA

Foreign Language Study & Reference

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

In this activity-based text, Rebecca Hughes invites the reader to examine the differences between spoken and written English.Instead of presenting a bewildering array of 'facts' about variety in English, she encourages the reader to actively investigate the differences between these two modes of communication by comparing actual speech patterns with literary ones. This indispensable guide to the basic methods of analysis provides both an overview of the relationship between speech and writing and an introduction to a central theoretical issue in language studies. By the end of the book, readers will have had the opportunity to consider material from an extensive selection of spoken and written varieties - including boxing commentaries, detective novels and film scripts - while being encouraged to formulate their own opinions with regard to lexis and structure. In addition, the tasks that have been incorporated into the end of every chapter provide suggestions for further self-study and follow-up work.

English in Speech and Writing: Investigating Language and Literature (Interface)

Words, Language & Grammar

Routledge

English in Speech and Writing (Interface)

Family Health and Medical Guide

Including more than 150 helpful line illustrations, a comprehensive, up-to-date resource offers concise explanations of many health problems and their treatments, from selecting a doctor to monitoring the health of children. Original.

Family Health & Medical Guide

Medical Books

Medicine

Signet

Teaching & Researching: Speaking is an up-to-date summary of current research and issues in the field of teaching and researching that can then be applied to classroom practice.

Teaching and Researching Speaking (Applied Linguistics in Action)

Pearson Education ESL

English in Speech and Writing: Investigating Language and Literature

Teaching and Researching: Speaking (Applied Linguistics in Action)

Speaking is a dynamic, interpersonal process and one that strongly influences how we are perceived by others in a range of formal and everyday contexts. Despite this, speaking is often researched and taught as if it is simply writing delivered in a different mode. In Teaching and Researching Speaking, Rebecca Hughes suggests that we have less understanding than we might of important meaning-making aspects of speech such as prosody, gaze, affect, and the ways speakers collaborate and negotiate with one another in interaction. This thoroughly revised and updated second edition looks to the future of the field, offering: <ul>
<li>A new chapter on assessment, discussing 'high stakes' oral language testing contexts such as immigration </li> <li>New material considering access to spoken data via the worldwide web and new technologies that allow neurolinguistic insights formerly hidden from view </li> <li>Summaries and case studies to help the reader understand how to approach researching speaking and encourages practitioners to question the models of speaking that they are using in their classrooms.</li>
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Reviewing materials and assessment practices in the light of current knowledge about spoken language, and highlighting areas for new work and collaboration between researchers and practitioners, this book will be a valuable resource for anyone involved in language teaching.

Teaching and Researching Speaking

Teaching and Researching Speaking provides an overview of the main approaches to researching spoken language and their practical application to teaching, classroom materials, and assessment. The history and current practices of teaching and researching speaking are presented through the lens of bigger theoretical issues about the object of study in linguistics, social attitudes to the spoken form, and the relationships between spoken and written language. A unique feature of the book is the way it clearly explains the nature of speaking and how it is researched and puts it into the context of a readable and holistic overview of language theory. This new edition is fully updated and revised to reflect the latest developments on classroom materials and oral assessment, as well as innovations in conversation analysis. The resources section is brought up-to-date with new media and currently available networks, online corpora, and mobile applications. This is a key resource for applied linguistics students, English language teachers, teacher trainers, and novice researchers.

Politics & Social Sciences

REED, BEATRICE SZCZEPEK

Social Sciences

Leading researchers in the field of spoken discourse and language teaching offer an empirically informed, issues-based discussion of the present state of research into spoken language. They address some of the complex and rewarding opportunities offered by these emerging insights for language education and, specifically, for TESOL. They ask whether new data and evidence that spoken discourse is a distinctive genre will challenge existing language theories and teaching. What could be the practical outcomes for curriculum, teaching approaches, materials and assessment? A stimulating resource for researchers and for professional and student language teachers.

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Spoken English, TESOL and Applied Linguistics: Challenges for Theory and Practice

English in Speech and Writing: Investigating Language and Literature (Interface)

English in Speech and Writing (Interface)

Family Health & Medical Guide

Teaching and Researching Speaking (Applied Linguistics in Action)

English in Speech and Writing: Investigating Language and Literature

Teaching and Researching: Speaking (Applied Linguistics in Action)

Teaching and Researching Speaking (Applied Linguistics in Action)

Teaching and Researching Speaking

Spoken English, TESOL and Applied Linguistics: Challenges for Theory and Practice