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1 online resource (418 pages) |
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Applied Linguistics in Action |
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Applied linguistics in action.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Figure list; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Publisher's Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section I Issues in teaching and researching speaking; 1 Conceptual and historical background; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The skill of speaking; 1.3 The nature of speech in contrast to writing; 1.4 Where does speech fit in language studies?; Summary; 2 The research space: paradigms and issues; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Classical research paradigms in relation to researching speaking; 2.3 Attitudes to speech data |
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2.4 The applicability of research approaches and frameworks to the study of speech2.5 Levels of analysis; Summary; Section II Issues for teaching and assessing speaking; 3 Approaches, materials and the issue of 'real' speech; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 What are our models and standards when we teach speaking?; 3.3 The evolution of materials to teach speaking; 3.4 The current scene in materials to teach speaking; 3.5 Bringing the skills together; Summary; 4 Issues in assessing speaking; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Why the nature of speaking is a challenge for test designers |
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4.3 A comparison of contrasting test paradigms for oral assessment in three high-stakes testsSummary; 5 Approaches to researching speech; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Quantitative and qualitative approaches towards researching speaking; 5.3 Theory-driven, positional, or ideas-based approaches to researching speaking; 5.4 Examples of contrasting approaches in researching speaking; 5.5 New directions; Section III Researching speaking; 6 Spoken language and the classroom; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The status of speaking in classrooms |
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6.3 The role of spoken interaction in Communicative Language Teaching classrooms6.4 Drawing on classroom practice for research and vice versa; Summary; 7 Research project ideas and frameworks; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 A project on spoken language found in textbooks versus a corpus; 7.3 A project on the effects of speech rate in the context of English as lingua franca presentations; 7.4 An exploration of inter-cultural expectations in conversation; 7.5 A project that analyses a professional speaking genre so it can be handled in the classroom |
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7.6 A project on speaking assessment with low education immigrant test takers7.7 A project investigating the relationship between gesture and speech processing using fMRI scanning techniques; Section IV Resources and further information; 8 Research borders and boundaries; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Speaking and ethnographic or cross-cultural studies; 8.3 Speaking and psycholinguistics; 8.4 Speaking and neuro-linguistic studies; 8.5 Speaking and corpus linguistics; 8.6 Speaking and new technologies; 9 Research resources; 9.1 Traditional library resources; 9.2 Societies and organisations |
| Summary |
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 l |
| Notes |
9.3 Online resources |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Oral communication -- Study and teaching -- Research
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317862758 |
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1317862759 |
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