01464nam a2200277Ia 4500 TVU_10185 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0521273846 9780521273848 eng 428.34 B877 Brown, Gillian Teaching the spoken language An approach based on the analysis of conversational English Gillian Brown and George Yule Cambridge,New York Cambridge University Press 1983 xi, 162 p. ill. 24 cm Teaching the Spoken Language is about teaching the spoken language. It presents in a highly accessible form the results of the author's important research on teaching and assessing effective spoken communication. The authors examine the nature of spoken language and how it differs from written language both in form and purpose. A large part of it is concerned with principles and techniques for teaching spoken production and listening comprehension. An important chapter deals with how to assess spoken language. The principles and techniques described apply to the teaching of English as a foreign and second language, and are also highly relevant to the teaching of the mother tongue English language; English language Gillian Brown and George Yule Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh