Issues in Teaching, Learning and Testing Speaking in a Second Language

✍ Scribed by Pawlak, Mirosław;Waniek-Klimczak, Ewa

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Series: Second Language Learning and Teaching
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Conversational English: Teaching spontaneity.- Local cultures in English: Intercultural communication in an international educational context.- Developing second language oral competence through an integrated discursive approach: The conceptual framework of the project and results of a pilot study.- It's small words that make a big difference.- Preparing tertiary students for study abroad programs - the identity negotiation perspective.- Correlates and predictors of L2 Willingness to Communicate in Polish adolescents.- Investigating foreign language speaking anxiety among advanced learners of English.- Advanced learners' use of communication strategies in spontaneous language performance.- Oral communication strategies used by Turkish students learning English as a foreign language.- The effect of diacritics on kinetic tone direction and placement.- Is there any place for silence in the communication-oriented process of adult language learning?.- Videoconferencing as a tool for developing speaking skills.- Using storybooks as a catalyst for negotiating of meaning and enhancing speaking among very young learners of L2: Evidence from a case study.- Business meetings as a genre - pedagogical implications for teaching Business English.- Developing and testing speaking skills in academic discourse.- Designing a self-assessment instrument for developing the speaking skill at the advanced level.

✦ Subjects

(BIC Subject Heading)CB;(BISAC Subject Heading)LAN009000;Classroom Discourse;Communication Strategies;(Produktform)Paperback / softback;Second Language Interaction;Speaking in a Second Language;(Springer Marketing Classification)B;(Springer Subject Code)SCN13000: Applied Linguistics;(Springer Subject Code)SCO23000: Language Education;(Springer Subject Collection)SUCO41171: Education;(VLB-WN)1561: Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprach