Teaching and Researching Speaking - Couverture souple

Hughes, Rebecca

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0582404541 ISBN 13 : 9780582404540

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 2002

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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 (how language makes us feel) and the ways speakers collaborate and negotiate with one another in interaction. The book reviews materials and assessment practices in the light of current knowledge about spoken language, and highlights areas for new work and collaboration between researchers and practitioners.

 

In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, the book looks to the future of the field, considering access to spoken data via the worldwide web and new technologies that allow neurolinguistic insights formerly hidden from view. A new chapter on assessment discusses ‘high stakes’ oral language testing contexts such as immigration.

 

Teaching and Researching Speaking presents 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.

 

 

Professor Rebecca Hughes is Chair of Applied Linguistics and Head of the Centre for English Language Education at the University of Nottingham UK.  She is the author of several publications including English in Speech and Writing (1996 ), and Spoken English, TESOL and Applied Linguistics: Challenges for Theory and Practice (Ed.) (2006). 

 

Biographie de l'auteur :

Dr. Rebecca Hughes is Director of the Centre for English Language Education, at the University of Nottingham, and a Senior Lecturer in the School of English Studies.  Previous books include English in Speech and Writing: Investigating language and literature (Routledge, 1996) and, as co-author with Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy, Exploring Grammar in Context (CUP, 2000).  She is an advisor to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority on the incorporation of spoken grammar into the National Curriculum.  Outside academic life, Rebecca Hughes is a past winner of national competitions for poetry and prose.  Her work has also been broadcast on BBC's The Best of Morning Story.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0582404541
• ISBN 13: 9780582404540
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216