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Authors: Rebecca Hughes, Rebecca Hughes
ISBN-13: 9781403936325, ISBN-10: 1403936323
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Rebecca Hughes

Rebecca Hughes is Director at the Centre for English Language Education at the University of Nottingham.

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

1Uncovering the sociopolitical situatedness of accents in the world Englishes paradigm3
2What the other half gives : the interlocutor's role in non-native speaker performance23
3Reading aloud53
4Intonational meaning starting from talk72
5A review of recent research on speech rhythm : some insights for language acquisition, language disorders and language teaching99
6Factors affecting turn-taking behaviour : genre meets prosody126
7Spoken discourse, academics and global English : a corpus perspective143
8Spoken grammar : vague language and EAP159
9Reflecting on reflections : the spoken word as a professional development tool in language teacher education182
10Analyzing classroom discourse : a variable approach216
11Pronunciation and the assessment of spoken language245
12Local and dialogic language ability and its implication for language teaching and testing271

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