ABSTRACT
This book is intended for classroom professionals or higher degree students who need to have an up-to-date, detailed, and straightforward summary of current research and issues in the field of teaching and researching speaking. In part, the book aims to assist communication between students and practising teachers on the one hand, and theoreticians and researchers in applied linguistics on the other, by helping to position work on the skill of speaking in the context of classroom issues, and illuminate these from a variety of research perspectives.
