Teaching the Spoken Language

Teaching the Spoken Language the results of the author's important research on teaching and assessing effective spoken communication.

Gillian Brown (Author), George Yule (Author)

9780521273848, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 November 1983

176 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.289 kg

'Brown and Yule do demonstrate that transactional spoken language is teachable.' Applied Linguistics

In this book the authors examine the nature of spoken language and how it differs from written language both in form and purpose. A large part of it is concerned with principles and techniques for teaching spoken production and listening comprehension. An important chapter deals with how to assess spoken language. The principles and techniques described apply to the teaching of English as a foreign and second language and are also highly relevant to the teaching of the mother tongue

Subject Areas: ELT: teaching theory & methods [EBA]