Teaching the Spoken Language

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Teaching the Spoken Language is written by Gillian Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521273846 (ISBN 10) and 9780521273848 (ISBN 13).

In this book 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