Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning

In a series of studies specially written for this volume, Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning offers the applied linguist research on spoken interaction in second and foreign languages and provides insights as to how findings from each of these studies may inform language pedagogy. The volume offers an interweaving of discourse perspectives: speech acts, speech events, interactional analysis, pragmatics, and conversational analysis.

Sixteen international academics contribute 13 articles offering a renewed understanding of the connection between oral interaction in various settings—classroom, immersion, interviews, role-plays, spontaneous conversation—and the development and assessment of language proficiency. Coverage includes theoretical issues; studies on the development of additional languages based on spontaneous spoken data; studies based on elicited data, such as interviews, role- plays, and discourse completion tasks; and studies focusing on the assessment of spoken discourse in language learning. Distributed by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Biography

Diana Boxer is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the University of Florida and author of several books. Andrew D. Cohen is Professor in English as a Second Language Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and author of several books.

Diana Boxer is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the University of Florida and author of several books. Andrew D. Cohen is Professor in English as a Second Language Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and author of several books.