Developing Advanced English Language Competence: A Research-Informed Approach at Tertiary Level

Foreword; Vivian Cook.- Introduction; Armin Berger.- Part I The English Language Competence Programme at the University of Vienna.- Language Analysis / Grammar in Use; Helen Heaney & Gunther Kaltenb?ck.- Integrated Language and Study Skills; Galina Savukova & Thomas Martinek.- Language in Use; Gillian Schwarz-Peaker.- English in a Professional Context; Amy Bruno-Lindner.- English for Academic Purposes; Angelika Rieder-B?nemann.- Mediation and Genre Analysis for English Teachers; Gabrielle Smith.- Practical Phonetics and Oral Communication Skills; Karin Richter.- The Language Lab; Maria Milchram, Magdalena Schwarz & Olivia Wankm?ller.- Advanced Speaking Skills for English Teachers; Karin Richter.- The Vienna English Language Test; Susanne Sweeney-Novak.- The Common Final Test; Thomas Martinek.- Part II Teaching English to Advanced Learners.- Written Reception and Production.- Writing an Argumentative Essay Like Sherlock Holmes: Teaching Essay Structure with the Detective Analogy; Horst Prillinger.- Teaching Deep Competence in Academic Writing; Gabrielle Smith.- Discerning Implicit Meaning and Signalling Writer Stance; Galina Savukova.- Teaching Punctuation in Consecutive Courses; Galina Savukova.- Yes/No/Not Given? An Integrative Approach to Teaching Academic Reading and Writing Skills; Thomas Martinek.- Spoken Production and Interaction.- Dealing with Stage Fright; Karin Richter.- Improving Advanced Interaction Skills; Amy Bruno-Lindner, Karin Richter, Galina Savukova.- New Ideas for Teaching Speaking: Speech Days; Brigitte Roth & Elisabeth Weitz-Polydoros.- Raising Awareness of the Role of Intonation; Meta Gartner-Schwarz.- Text Analysis and Mediation.- Reading Below the Surface: Guiding Students to Getting More out of Texts; Lisa Nazarenko.- Improving Students' Writing Skills in English in a Professional Context; Amy Bruno-Lindner.- Text Transformation: The Art of Parody; Elisabeth M?ller-Lipold.- Part III Teacher Research on Learning, Teaching and Assessment.- Students' Conceptions of Academic Writing in a Second Language: Perspectives of Advanced Students of English; Angelika Rieder-B?nemann & Pia Resnik.- Analysing Discourse Coherence in Students' L2 Writing: Rhetorical Structure and the Use of Connectives; Barbara Schiftner.- The Role of Identity in the Adult EFL Pronunciation Classroom; Karin Richter.- Attitudes Towards Vocabulary Learning When Using a Vocabulary Log; Helen Heaney & Sandra Pelzmann.- Weaving Academic Texts: An Observation of Students' Quest for the Magic of Words in the Language Competence Program; Katharina Ghamarian.- The Challenges of Improving Vocabulary Depth and Breadth at an Advanced Level: A Survey of the Literature; Helen Heaney & Gillian Schwarz-Peaker.- Developing Benchmarks for Rater Training as well as Teaching and Learning Purposes; Armin Berger.- Assessing Oral Presentations and Interactions: From a 'Systematic' to a 'Salient Features' Approach; Armin Berger.- Conclusion; Armin Berger.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030792404
• ISBN13: 9783030792404
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"