This chapter reviews research and practice in six main areas relevant to the teaching of
speaking:(1) the growing influence of spoken corpora,(2) the debates concerning native …

Offering a unique, data-led, evidence-based approach to reflective practice in English
language teaching, this book brings together theory, research and practice in an accessible …

This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of a practical introduction to
intercultural education for teachers of English as a second language. It provides a concise …

Teaching and Researching Speaking provides an overview of the main approaches to
researching spoken language and their practical application to teaching, classroom …

In the present study, I take a corpus-based/grammatical approach to compare the scripted
language of Friends to natural conversation. I combine multidimensional methodology …

Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics which
both covers theory and applies it to real spoken and written data. This textbook …

The research for this publication draws on a number of spoken corpus resources with a view
to gaining a better understanding of the extent to which the analysis of spoken corpus data …

This article synthesises progress made in the description of spoken (especially
conversational) grammar over the 20 years since the authors published a paper in this …

This article outlines the current state of and recent developments in the use of corpora for
language assessment and considers future directions with a special focus on computational …

This chapter explains how concordances have developed since their first use several
hundreds of years ago, how the results of searches through electronic corpora can be …