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    Perspectives on teaching connected speech to second language speakers

    Brown, J. D., & Kondo-Brown, K. (eds.)

    Brown, J. D., Kondo-Brown, K., & National Foreign Language Resource Center (University of Hawaii at Manoa). (2006). Perspectives on teaching connected speech to second language speakers. Honolulu, HI: National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

    This edited collection of fourteen articles examines connected speech is 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?

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