Leading researchers in the field of spoken discourse and language teaching offer an empirically informed, issues-based discussion of the present state of research into spoken language. They address some of the complex and rewarding opportunities offered by these emerging insights for language education and, specifically, for TESOL. They ask whether new data and evidence that spoken discourse is a distinctive genre will challenge existing language theories and teaching. What could be the practical outcomes for curriculum, teaching approaches, materials and assessment? A stimulating resource for researchers and for professional and student language teachers.

WALLACE CHAFE Professor Emeritus at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA JOAN CUTTING Senior Lecturer in TESOL, University of Edinburgh, UK FIONA FARR Lecturer in EFL/ELT and Course Director of the MA in ELT at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland MARYSIA JOHNSON GERSON Associate Professor in the department of English, Linguistics/TESL Program, Arizona State University, USA JOHN M. LEVIS Teaches in the TESL/Applied Linguistics program at Iowa State University, USA ANGEL M. Y. LIN Associate Professor in the Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong STEPHANIE LINDEMANN Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University, USA EE LING LOW Currently appointed as the Sub-Dean of Degree Programmes at the National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she is an Assistant Professor with the English Language & Literature Academic Group JASMINE C. M. LUK Lecturer in English at the Hong Kong Institute of Education ANNA MAURANEN Professor of English Philology at the University of Tampere, Finland BEATRICE SZCZEPEK REED Research Fellow in the Centre for English Language Education at the University of Nottingham, UK STEVE WALSH Head of External Relations and Lecturer in Education in the Graduate School of Education, Queen's University Belfast, UK ANN WENNERSTROM Teaches Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language at the University of Washington, USA