Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking

✍ Scribed by Jonathan M. Newton, I.S.P. Nation

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
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
Conclusion
Appendix A The Survival Syllabus
Appendix B Topic Types
Appendix C Topics for Listening and Speaking
Appendix D Sample Unit from Riddiford and Newton (2010)
References
Index