Pawlak / Waniek-Klimczak / Majer Speaking and Instructed Foreign Language Acquisition

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84769-474-4
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 57, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Second Language Acquisition

Developing the ability to speak in a foreign language is an arduous task. This is because it involves the mastery of different language subsystems, simultaneous focus on comprehension and production, and the impact of a range of social factors. This challenge is further compounded in situations in which learners have limited access to the target language. Thus, there is a need to explore issues related to teaching, learning and testing speaking with a view to translating the guidelines based on theoretical positions and research findings into feasible and context-specific pedagogical recommendations. This is the rationale behind this book, which considers speaking from leading theoretical perspectives, investigates individual variables which affect its development, and reports the results of studies focusing on different aspects of its instructed acquisition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pawlak, Miroslaw

Waniek-Klimczak, Ewa

Majer, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Part I: Theoretical perspectives on instructed acquisition of speaking

1. Miroslaw Pawlak: Instructed acquisition of speaking: Reconciling theory and practice

2. Agnieszka Nowicka and Weronika Wilczynska: Authenticity in oral communication of instructed L2 learners

3. Piotr Bialas: Formulaic sequences in the output of instructed L2 learners

4. Agnieszka Wróbel: Formulaicity vs. fluency and accuracy in using English as a foreign language.

5. Jan Majer: Talking the same language: Sociocultural aspects of code-switching in L2 classroom discourse

6. Anna Nizegorodcew: Speaking in English for Academic Purposes in the light of Lingua Franca English

Part II: Speaking and individual variables

7. Adriana Biedron: Near-nativeness as a function of cognitive and personality factors. Three case studies of highly able foreign language learners

8. Ewa Waniek-Klimczak: ‘I am good at speaking, but I failed my phonetics class’ – pronunciation and speaking in advanced learners of English

9. Krystyna Drozdzial-Szelest: Oral skills awareness of advanced ESL learners

10. Aneta Calka: Pronunciation learning strategies – identification and classification

11. Magdalena Wrembel: Metaphonetic awareness in the production of speech

12. Krzysztof Nerlicki: Foreign language speaking anxiety from the perspective of Polish students of German studies

13. Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel: The relationship between language anxiety and the development of the speaking skill. Results of a longitudinal study

Part III: Research into instructed acquisition of speaking

14. Sebastian Piotrowski: On the authenticity of communication in the foreign language classroom

15. Irena Czwenar: Ways to proficiency in spoken English as a foreign language – tracing individual development

16. Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak: Task repetition as a way of enhancing oral communication in a foreign language

17. Mariusz Kruk: The use of the Internet and Instant Messengers in assisting the acquisition of speaking skills in English lessons

18. Dorota Werbinska: Investigating the perception of speaking skills with metaphor-based methods

19. Jolanta Szpyra-Kozlowska: Phonetically difficult words in intermediate learners’ English

20. Przemyslaw Krakowian: Transcultural interference, communities of practice and collaborative assessment of oral performance

Über Autor(innen)

Pawlak, Miroslaw
Miroslaw Pawlak is Professor of English at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, State University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland, and the Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts in Kalisz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland. His research interests include form-focused instruction, corrective feedback, classroom discourse, learner autonomy, learning strategies, motivation, willingness to communicate, pronunciation teaching, and study abroad.

Majer, Jan
Jan Majer is Professor of English and head of the Department of Psycholinguistics and ELT, Institute of English Studies, Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz, Poland. His main areas of interest are bilingualism, second language acquisition theory and research, analysis of classroom communication, and English as an International Language.

Waniek-Klimczak, Ewa
Ewa Waniek-Klimczak is Professor of English linguistics and the Director of Studies in the Institute of English at the University of Lódz. She teaches courses in phonetics, phonology, accents of English and spoken discourse. Her main research interests are the acquisition and usage of the SL sound system, cross-linguistic phonetics and phonology and pronunciation teaching.