Teaching the Spoken Language: An Approach Based on the Analysis of Conversational English

By George Yule and Gillian D. Brown

Book Overview

In this book the authors examine the nature of spoken language and how it differs from written language both in form and purpose. A large part of it is concerned with principles and techniques for teaching spoken production and listening comprehension. An important chapter deals with how to assess spoken language. The principles and techniques described apply to the teaching of English as a foreign and second language and are also highly relevant to the teaching of the mother tongue

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521273846
• ISBN13: 9780521273848
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"