Preface Author's preface 1 Introduction 2 Speech acts and conversational maxims 3 The ethnography of speaking 4 Conversational analysis 5 Intonation 6 A linguistic approach 7 Discourse analysis and language teaching 8 The acquisition of ...

The central concern of this book is the analysis of verbal interaction or discourse.

Through its focus on the features of key genres, this book shows what close textual analyses can reveal about the social practices and institutional ideologies of different academic communities, and at the same time provides a clear basis ...

Glenn Fulcher's Testing Second Language Speaking is a state-of-the-art volume that considers the assessment of speaking from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives.

This volume offers new insights into the principles of autonomy and independence and the practices associated with them focusing on the area of EFL teaching.

This book examines the theory of genre analysis and looks at genre analysis in action.

This book provides a synthesis of empirical findings on second and foreign language learning by children and adults, emphasising the design and execution of appropriate research.

The content provides an introduction and a review of major themes in Writing research and pedagogy. This is in part achieved by the papers themselves, and in part by the introductions the Editors offer to each of the four Parts.

This book provides a synthesis of empirical findings on second and foreign language learning by children and adults, emphasising the design and execution of appropriate research.

The thought-provoking papers in this volume address some of the key aspects of the controversial debate about literacy in our society from the perspective of a language-based theory of learning. Applied Linguistics and language Study.