Authors: Rebecca Hughes, Rebecca Hughes
ISBN-13: 9781403936325, ISBN-10: 1403936323
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Rebecca Hughes is Director at the Centre for English Language Education at the University of Nottingham.
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 the 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. A stimulating resource for both researchers and language teachers.
1 | Uncovering the sociopolitical situatedness of accents in the world Englishes paradigm | 3 |
2 | What the other half gives : the interlocutor's role in non-native speaker performance | 23 |
3 | Reading aloud | 53 |
4 | Intonational meaning starting from talk | 72 |
5 | A review of recent research on speech rhythm : some insights for language acquisition, language disorders and language teaching | 99 |
6 | Factors affecting turn-taking behaviour : genre meets prosody | 126 |
7 | Spoken discourse, academics and global English : a corpus perspective | 143 |
8 | Spoken grammar : vague language and EAP | 159 |
9 | Reflecting on reflections : the spoken word as a professional development tool in language teacher education | 182 |
10 | Analyzing classroom discourse : a variable approach | 216 |
11 | Pronunciation and the assessment of spoken language | 245 |
12 | Local and dialogic language ability and its implication for language teaching and testing | 271 |