Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking
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ISBN13: | 9780367195519 |
ISBN10: | 0367195518 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 294 pages |
Size: | 229x152 mm |
Weight: | 521 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 1 Halftones, black & white; 21 Line drawings, black & white; 28 Tables, black & white |
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This guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their listening and speaking skills and fluency, using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning.
This guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their listening and speaking skills and fluency, using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning. By following these suggestions, which are organised around four strands?meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused learning, and fluency development?teachers will be able to design and present a balanced programme for their students.
Updated with cutting-edge research and theory, the second edition of Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking retains its hands-on focus and engaging format, and features new activities and information on emerging topics, including:
- Two new chapters on Extensive Listening and Teaching Using a Course Book
- Expanded coverage of key topics, including assessment, pronunciation, and using the internet to develop listening and speaking skills
- Easy-to-implement tasks and suggestions for further reading in every chapter
- More tools for preservice teachers and teacher trainers, such as a sample unit, a "survival syllabus", and topic prompts
The second edition of this bestselling book is an essential text for all Certificate, Diploma, Masters, and Doctoral courses for teachers of English as a second or foreign language.
1. Parts and Goals of a Listening and Speaking Course 2. Beginning to Listen and Speak in Another Language 3. Listening 4. Extensive Listening 5. Language-focused Learning through Dictation and Related Activities 6. Pronunciation 7. Learning through Task-based Interaction 8. Learning through Pushed Output 9. Teaching Using a Course Book 10. Language-focused Learning: Deliberate Teaching 11. Developing Fluency 12. Assessing Progress