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

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 ...

This book undertakes a general framework within which to consider the complex nature of the writing task in English, both as a first, and as a second language.

Genre analysis, corpus linguistics, contrastive rhetoric and ethnography are comprehensively covered through the analysis of various academic genres: research articles, PhD these, textbooks, argumentative essays, and business cases.

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.

Presents eight specially written chapters which provide a coherent survey of major issues in the study of language and communication, and which show how these are related to questions of practical concern in the learning and teaching of ...

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

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 ...