This book argues for putting spoken language at the centre of the syllabus.

Leading researchers in the field of spoken discourse and language teaching offer an empirically informed, issues-based discussion of the present state of resear

This volume explores the opportunities that spoken corpora offer and the challenges of research with such corpora. The use and applications of spoken corpora ar

For those who are familiar with the first edition, it will be convenient to have some indication of where the main changes lie. Chapter one has been largely rew

In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the discoursal properties of language and demonstrate what insights this approach can offer to the stud