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Informationen zum Autor Michael McCarthy is a national bestselling author, whose nonfiction books include The Sun Farmer, Ashes Under Water and The Hidden Hindenburg. His poetry has appeared in prestigious literary journals including The Southern Review and Poetry East. Behold is his first poetry collection. Kimberly Callas is a multi-media artist, sculptor, and the lead artist of the Social Practice project Discovering the Ecological Self. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums. Klappentext This book argues for putting spoken language at the centre of the syllabus. Zusammenfassung This book argues for putting spoken language at the centre of the syllabus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; The author; 1. Introduction; 2. Spoken language and the notion of genre; 3. What should we teach about the spoken language?; 4. When does sentence grammar become discourse grammar?; 5. Some patterns of co-occurrence of verb-forms in spoken and written English; 6. Vocabulary and the spoken language; 7. Idioms in use: a discourse-based re-examination of a traditional area of language teaching; 8. 'So Mary was saying': speech reporting in everyday conversation; Glossary; References; Index.
