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Chapter 10. Speaking in a second language

Where are we now?

Abstract

This concluding chapter presents an overview of the speaking skill in the history of language teaching from the Grammar Translation Method to current Task-based Approach. It then moves on to the role of speaking in current usage-based perspectives, which view language as a social activity and where the social and the cognitive are no longer considered separate entities. As meaning is at the centre and language is considered to emerge out of usage, spoken interaction is promoted and speaking is considered both a social and a cognitive construct. We will observe how the different chapters in the volume fall within usage-based approaches and some of them provide usage-based inspired pedagogy. Finally, future research directions are proposed.

Abstract

This concluding chapter presents an overview of the speaking skill in the history of language teaching from the Grammar Translation Method to current Task-based Approach. It then moves on to the role of speaking in current usage-based perspectives, which view language as a social activity and where the social and the cognitive are no longer considered separate entities. As meaning is at the centre and language is considered to emerge out of usage, spoken interaction is promoted and speaking is considered both a social and a cognitive construct. We will observe how the different chapters in the volume fall within usage-based approaches and some of them provide usage-based inspired pedagogy. Finally, future research directions are proposed.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Chapter 1. Sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of speaking 1
  5. Chapter 2. Speaking, interactional competencies, and mediated action 27
  6. Chapter 3. Gesture and speaking a second language 49
  7. Chapter 4. L2 talk as social accomplishment 69
  8. Chapter 5. The acquisition of L2 speaking 105
  9. Chapter 6. Exploring the spoken learner English constructicon 127
  10. Chapter 7. Creating and using the space for speaking within the foreign language classroom 153
  11. Chapter 8. Code-switching in the Spanish heritage language classroom 175
  12. Chapter 9. The Mirroring Project 197
  13. Chapter 10. Speaking in a second language 225
  14. Index 241
Speaking in a Second Language
This chapter is in the book Speaking in a Second Language
https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.17.10alo

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Chapter 1. Sociolinguistic competence and the acquisition of speaking 1
  5. Chapter 2. Speaking, interactional competencies, and mediated action 27
  6. Chapter 3. Gesture and speaking a second language 49
  7. Chapter 4. L2 talk as social accomplishment 69
  8. Chapter 5. The acquisition of L2 speaking 105
  9. Chapter 6. Exploring the spoken learner English constructicon 127
  10. Chapter 7. Creating and using the space for speaking within the foreign language classroom 153
  11. Chapter 8. Code-switching in the Spanish heritage language classroom 175
  12. Chapter 9. The Mirroring Project 197
  13. Chapter 10. Speaking in a second language 225
  14. Index 241
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