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Teaching ESL/EFL listening and speaking / I.S.P. Nation and J. Newton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ESL and applied linguistics professional seriesPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2009Description: xiii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415989698
  • 9780415989695
  • 0415989701
  • 9780415989701
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.007 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1128.A2 N344 2009
Contents:
1. Parts and Goals of a Listening and Speaking Course -- 2. Beginning to Listen and Speak in Another Language -- 3. Listening -- 4. Language-focused Learning through Dictation and Related Activities -- 5. Pronunciation -- 6. Learning through Task-focused Interaction -- 7. Learning through Pushed Output -- 8. Language-focused Learning: Deliberate Teaching -- 9. Developing Fluency -- 10. Monitoring and Testing Progress -- App. 1. The Survival Syllabus -- App. 2. Topic Types -- App. 3. Topics for Listening and Speaking.
Review: "Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, 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. By following these suggestions, which are organized 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index.

1. Parts and Goals of a Listening and Speaking Course -- 2. Beginning to Listen and Speak in Another Language -- 3. Listening -- 4. Language-focused Learning through Dictation and Related Activities -- 5. Pronunciation -- 6. Learning through Task-focused Interaction -- 7. Learning through Pushed Output -- 8. Language-focused Learning: Deliberate Teaching -- 9. Developing Fluency -- 10. Monitoring and Testing Progress -- App. 1. The Survival Syllabus -- App. 2. Topic Types -- App. 3. Topics for Listening and Speaking.

"Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, 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. By following these suggestions, which are organized 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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