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Enjoy fifty video segments from footage shot on location in and around Beijing, such as an interview with a girl about her favorite toys, self-introductions by college students, and off-the-cuff introduction to taxis and buses. Filmed on location in Beijing, mostly at Peking University, these naturalistic video clips, ranging from less than one minute to eight minutes in length and consisting chiefly of unrehearsed interviews of ordinary folk, offer valuable source material for Chinese language teachers at all levels. Six topic areas are represented. These are personal information, commercial transactions, travel and leisure, health and sports, food, and school.



Perspectives on teaching connected speech to second language speakers

This book is a collection of fourteen articles on connected speech of interest to teachers, researchers, and materials developers in both ESL/EFL (ten chapters focus on connected speech in English) and Japanese (four chapters focus on Japanese connected speech). The fourteen chapters are divided up into five sections:

  • What do we know so far about teaching connected speech?
  • Does connected speech instruction work?
  • How should connected speech be taught in English?
  • How should connected speech be taught in Japanese?
  • How should connected speech be tested?


 
Pragmatics & Language Learning 11
This volume features cutting-edge research on L2 pragmatics from a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. It offers fresh perspectives on standard topics such as the use and learning of speech acts and the pragmatic meanings of linguistic resources, and the effect of planned intervention on pragmatic development in language instruction. The chapters also document researchers' increasing attention to different forms of computer-mediated communication as environments for using and developing L2 pragmatic competence and of conversation analysis as an approach to different aspects of interaction in a variety of settings.


Online Journals

Language Learning & Technology and Reading in a Foreign Language are well-known peer-reviewed journals sponsored by the NFLRC.

Starting up in June of 2007, Language Documentation and Conservation publishes papers on all topics related to documentation and conservation plus book reviews, hardware and software reviews, and notes from the field. Don't miss an issue, subscribe now.



Foreign Language Program Evaluation: An Annotated Bibliography
This section of the FL Program Evaluation Project website lists resources to support foreign language educators in evaluating college-level foreign language programs.


 

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