| Book Description | Learning a language and being able to speak it do not go hand in hand. This book provides both structured activities to get students speaking and ideas for developing confidence in using English outside the classroom. Essentially, this book:examines the different approaches and activities that can be used for teaching and testing speaking.covers areas of speech such as articulation, fluency and register.looks at classroom approaches such as drilling, discussions, drama, dialogues and conversation. |
| About the Author | I teach on an MA TESOL program for the New School, New York, and live in Spain. I am the author of a number of books on language and methodology, including How to Teach Grammar, How to Teach Vocabulary and How To Teach Speaking (Pearson), Uncovering Grammar, Beyond the Sentence and An A-Z of ELT (all published by Macmillan), Natural Grammar (winner of a British Council Innovations award in 2005) and Grammar (Oxford University Press); and Conversation (with Diana Slade) and The CELTA Book (with Peter Watkins) both for Cambridge University Press. My latest book, Teaching Unplugged (Delta Publishing, co-written with Luke Meddings) won a British Council Innovations award in 2010. I am currently the series editor for the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers. |
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