Teaching listening and speaking in second and foreign language contexts / Kathleen M. Bailey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Teaching speaking and listening: an introduction -- Teaching speaking and listening through the age -- Language proficiency and communicative competence -- Second language acquisition and teaching speaking and listening -- Teaching listening in a second or foreign language -- Teaching speaking in a second or foreign language -- Teaching interactive speaking and listening -- Tasks and projects in teaching listening and speaking -- Speaking and listening fluency -- Teaching pronunciation in a second or foreign language -- Pragmatics, speech events, and speech arts -- Assessing l2 listening -- Assessing l2 speaking -- Assessing interactive speaking and listening -- References -- Index.