Teaching Listening and Speaking in Second and Foreign Language Contexts

Kathleen M. Bailey is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA. She is the President of The International Research Foundation for English Language Education, as well as the Chairman of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. She has served as the President of the TESOL International Association and the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), and on the TOEFL Research Committee.

Bailey’s work on teaching listening and speaking in second and foreign language contexts is a necessary resource for all language teachers. She seamlessly bridges theory and practice throughout, includes numerous examples of language activities that can be immediately implemented in the classroom, and her own personal language learning reflections.

• Acknowledgements1. Teaching Speaking and Listening: An Introduction2. Teaching Speaking and Listening through the Ages3. Language Proficiency and Communicative Competence4. Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Speaking and Listening5. Teaching Listening in a Second or Foreign Language6. Teaching Speaking in a Second or Foreign Language7. Teaching Interactive Speaking and Listening8. Tasks and Projects in Teaching Listening and Speaking9. Speaking and Listening Fluency10. Teaching Pronunciation in a Second or Foreign Language11. Pragmatics, Speech Events, and Speech Acts 12. Assessing L2 Listening13. Assessing L2 Speaking14. Assessing Interactive Speaking and Listening ReferencesIndex