Successful Spoken English - Findings From Learner Corpora

List of contents

1. What is a successful speaker of English?
2. Linguistic competence
3. Strategic competence
4. Discourse competence
5. Pragmatic competence
6. Conclusion

About the author

Christian Jones isSenior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics andTESOLat the University of Liverpool, UK.
Shelley Byrne is Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.
Nicola Halenko is Senior Lecturer in English Language Teaching at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Summary

This book uses cutting-edge research to showcase how spoken learner corpora can define and explore the constituents of successful spoken English. Taking the approach that successful speakers can be effective while using some defective forms, it reassess the goals of learners, teachers and those wishing to analyse communicative competence.

Product details

• Authors: Shelley Byrne, Shelley (University of Central Lancashire Byrne, Nicola Halenko, Nicola (University of Central Lancashire Halenko, Christian Jones, Christian (University of Liverpool Jones, Christian Byrne Jones, Jones Christian
• Assisted by: Ronald Carter (Editor of the series), Michael McCarthy (Editor of the series), Anne O’Keeffe (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138683990
• ISBN: 978-1-138-68399-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics; Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language: reference and general, Language teaching theory and methods, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literature: history and criticism, ELT: speaking skills, Applied linguistics for ELT