A text which provides solutions to the problem of inaccuracies resulting from an emphasis on fluency. It suggests that the restoration of balance depends upon a greater understanding of proficiency and of the roles of cross-linguistic influence, systematic instruction and the co…
Conversation and speaking skills are the key building blocks for much of language learning. This text increases teachers' awareness about spoken language and suggests ways of applying that knowledge to teaching second-language interaction skills based on insights from Conversati…
Conversation and speaking skills are the key building blocks for much of language learning. This text increases teachers' awareness about spoken language and suggests ways of applying that knowledge to teaching second-language interaction skills based on insights from Conversati…
Simon Heffer makes an impassioned case for correct English and offers practical advice on how to avoid solecisms and mangled sentences that increasingly pepper everyday speech and writing. This book shows the reader that accuracy and clarity are within the grasp of anyone who is…
Simon Heffer makes an impassioned case for correct English and offers practical advice on how to avoid solecisms and mangled sentences that increasingly pepper everyday speech and writing. This book shows the reader that accuracy and clarity are within the grasp of anyone who is…
Examines genres as instances of social processes, enacting a range of important institutional practices, hence also shaping people's subjectivities.
Research on second language acquisition (SLA) has identified language aptitude and age of onset (AO), i.e., the age at which learners are first meaningfully exposed to the L2, as robust predictors of rate of classroom language learning and level of ultimate L2 attainment in natu…
Fluency in native and nonnative English speech
by Götz, Sandra
fromStudies in corpus linguistics
This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and…
Fluency in Native And Nonnative English Speech
by Götz, Sandra
fromStudies in corpus linguistics