Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking

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.

Autorentext

Jonathan M. Newton is Associate Professor and Director of the MA TESOL programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

I.S.P. Nation is Professor Emeritus in Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Inhalt

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