WALLACE CHAFE Professor Emeritus at University of California, Santa Barbara, USAJOAN CUTTING Senior Lecturer in TESOL, University of Edinburgh, UKFIONA FARR Lecturer in EFL/ELT and Course Director of the MA in ELT at the University of Limerick, Republic of IrelandMARYSIA JOHNSON GERSON Associate Professor in the department of English, Linguistics/TESL Program, Arizona State University, USAJOHN M. LEVIS Teaches in the TESL/Applied Linguistics program at Iowa State University, USAANGEL M. Y. LIN Associate Professor in the Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong KongSTEPHANIE LINDEMANN Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University, USAEE LING LOW Currently appointed as the Sub-Dean of Degree Programmes at the National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she is an Assistant Professor with the English Language & Literature Academic GroupJASMINE C. M. LUK Lecturer in English at the Hong Kong Institute of EducationANNA MAURANEN Professor of English Philology at the University of Tampere, FinlandBEATRICE SZCZEPEK REED Research Fellow in the Centre for English Language Education at the University of Nottingham, UKSTEVE WALSH Head of External Relations and Lecturer in Education in the Graduate School of Education, Queen's University Belfast, UKANN WENNERSTROM Teaches Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language at the University of Washington, USA

'...the book provides a set of accessible, issues-driven discussions of the "state of the art" in spoken language research and practice. It thus has something to offer researchers and practitioners working in a wide range of professional contexts.' - The Linguist

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; R.Hughes PART 1: ATTITUDES AND IDEOLOGIES Uncovering the Sociopolitical Situatedness of Accents in the World Englishes Paradigm; J.C.M.Luk & A.M.Y.Lin What the Other Half Gives: The Interlocutor's Role in Non-native Speaker Performance; S.Lindemann PART 2: PROSODY; NEW MODELS FOR MEANING Reading Aloud; W.Chafe Intonational Meaning Starting from Talk; A.Wennerstrom A Review of Recent Research on Speech Rhythm: Some Insights for Language Acquisition, Language Disorders and Language Teaching; E.L.Low Factors Affecting Turn-Taking Behaviour: Genre Meets Prosody; R.Hughes & B.S.Reed PART 3: SPOKEN DISCOURSE AND LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY Spoken Discourse, Academic and Global English: A Corpus Perspective; A.Mauranen Spoken Grammar; Vague Language and EAP; J.Cutting Reflecting on Reflections: The Spoken Word as a Professional Development Tool in Language Teacher Education; F.Farr Analyzing Classroom Discourse; A Variable Approach; S.Walsh PART 4: ASSESSING SPEAKING Pronunciation and the Assessment of Spoken Language; J.M.Levis Local and Dialogic Language Ability and its Implications for Language Teaching and Testing; M.J.Gerson Index