口语教学与研究

　　《口语教学与研究》从新颖的角度，从口语的教学、研究、评估、资源等不同方面对口语教学与研究现状进行了分析，并将其与语言学及应用语言学中更广泛的议题联系在一起。作者总结并评介了以往一些学者对这一课题所作的研究并指出这些研究还远远不够，此外作者还将这些研究与读者自身潜在的研究课题联系起来。广大英语教师、英语教育研究者及应用语言学专业的研究生会通过阅读此书而受益。

暂缺《口语教学与研究》作者简介

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section I Issues in teaching and researching speaking
Conceptual and historical background
Introduction
The skill of speaking
The nature of speech in contrast to writing
Where does speech fit in language studies?
Summary
The research space： paradigms and problems
Introduction
Classical research paradigms in relation to researching
speaking
Attitudes to speech data
The applicability of research approaches and frameworks
to the study of speech
The problem of the status of speech in applied linguistics
Where are the data for research into speech?
Summary
Section II Issues for teaching and assessing speaking
Approaches, materials and the problem of real speech
Introduction
Spoken interaction in context
Teaching global speaking skills
Teaching spoken grammar
Perspectives on pronunciation and fluency
Bringing the skills together
Summary
Issues in assessing speaking
Introduction
Language proficiency versus speaking proficiency
The issue of interactivity
The issue of creating authentic conditions for speech testing
The issue of spoken genres and testing
Integrated versus discrete skills testing
A comparison of test paradigms for oral assessment
The criteria for three tests of speaking compared
Summary
Approaches to researching speech
Introduction
Research into global features of speech
Grammar, structural choices and the spoken language
Research into fluency and pronunciation
Sunmmary
Some new directions
Introduction
Mode-based research
Theoretical orientations on the role and status of speech
Evidence from speech pathology
Modality, processing and memory
Speaking, writing and teaching spoken/writren forms of
language
Summary of central issues discussed in relation to newapproaches to speech
Summary
Section III Researching speaking
Classrooms, research and spoken mode
Introduction
Implications of the nature of spoken discourse on
teaching speech
Moving towards your own project on spoken discourse
Sources of inspiration for research
Research project ideas and frameworks
Introduction
Projects on oral interaction： a discourse analysis approach
and an experimental approach
Projects on one particular spoken discourse feature：
an action-research approach and a conversation analysis
approach
Projects on oral task difficulty： two approaches to quantifying complexity
Projects on differences between mode： two experimental
approaches
Section IV Resources and further information
Research borders and boundaries
Introduction
Speaking and ethnographic or cross-cultural studies
Speaking and psycholinguistics
Speaking and neuro-linguistic studies
Speaking and corpus linguistics
Speaking and new technologies
Research resources
Traditional library resources
Databases and sound archives （both on-line and on CD-ROM）
Speech corpora
Societies and organisations
Speech recognition and text-to-speech
On-line pronunciation and intonation resources
Research skills summaries
Other on-line resources
Glossary
References
Index