International Perspectives on Teaching the Four Skills in ELT

1. Teaching the Four Language Skills: Themes and Issues
Anne Burns, Joseph Siegel

Part I. Listening

2. What Teachers Say About Listening and Its Pedagogy: A Comparison Between Two Countries
Denise Santos, Suzanne Graham

3. L2 Listening in China: An Examination of Current Practice
Willy A. Renandya, Guangwei Hu

4. The Development of a Listening Course for Japanese University Students
Michael McAuliffe, Gavin Brooks

5. Listening Instruction for ESP: Exploring Nursing Education Where English is a Lingua Franca
M. Gregory Tweedie, Robert C. Johnson

Part II. Speaking

6. ‘I Can Talk About a Lot of Things in the Other Language but not in English’: Teaching Speaking Skills in Cameroon Primary Schools
Achu Charles Tante

7. Inquiry Dialogue: A Genre for Promoting Teacher and Student Speaking in the Classroom
Philip Chappell

8. Teaching Dialogic Speaking Strategies in a Canadian EAP Program
Winnie Pang, Michael Burri

9. Teaching Conversational English to Adult Learners via Skype: A Russian Perspective
Olga Kozar

Part III. Reading

10. Supporting Elementary Students’ Reading Through Authentic Literature for Children
Olga Vraštilová

11. Teaching Reading to Encourage Critical Thinking and Collaborative Work
Sri Rejeki Murtiningsih, Winda Hapsari

12. Reading Communities: Developing Autonomy in an ESL Academic Reading Course
Gordon Blaine West

13. Reading as a Social Practice for Adult Migrants: Talk Around Text
Kevin Roach

Part IV. Writing

14. Promoting Descriptive Writing Through Culturally Relevant Literature
Rawia Hayik

15. Using Corrective Feedback on Writing to Enhance Vietnamese Learners’ Autonomy
Nhu Luan Pham, Noriko Iwashita

16. Promoting Self-Reflection in Writing: A Showcase Portfolio Approach
Ricky Lam

17. ‘Localizing’ Second Language Writing Pedagogy in a Skills-Integrated Language Program in Brazil
Isabela Villas Boas

18. Future Directions for the Four Skills
Joseph Siegel, Anne Burns

Keywords: Linguistics, English, Language Teaching, Language Education, Language Policy and Planning, Psycholinguistics