Speaking. A seemingly straightforward term, nonetheless theories on how best to teach the arts of speech and speaking in a language-learning context are complex and varied. This book attempts to address some of the fundamental questions (what is speech? whose speech is being taught?) and help the reader understand the complexities of spoken discourse. Rebecca Hughes argues that speech has been under-researched as a faculty in its own right, and presents an original stance on the topic of speaking which is then related to wider issues in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. The book presents the analysis of the state of teaching and researching speaking through three different levels: interactions and discourse, grammar and speaker choices, fluency and pronunciation.

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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.

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• Accessible to non-specialist audience
• Summarises sometimes difficult key texts and topics and makes them relevant to the reader's own potential research projects
• Presents an original stance on the topic of speakign and relates this to wider issues in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
• Varied and detailed research project plans outlined which can be carried put by the reader or used as a starting point for their own ideas

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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, and the ways speakers collaborate and negotiate with one another in interaction.

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition looks to the future of the field, offering:

• A new chapter on assessment, discussing 'high stakes' oral language testing contexts such as immigration
• New material considering access to spoken data via the worldwide web and new technologies that allow neurolinguistic insights formerly hidden from view
• 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.

Reviewing materials and assessment practices in the light of current knowledge about spoken language, and highlighting areas for new work and collaboration between researchers and practitioners, this book will be a valuable resource for anyone involved in language teaching.

Rebecca Hughes is Chair of Applied Linguistics and Head of the Centre for English Language Education at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. 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). 

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