'One main danger is that spoken English continues to be judged by the codified standards of written English, and that teaching pupils to speak standard English may, in fact, be to teach them to speak in formal written English.

Baron, Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading. As writing growingly mirrors informal speech, contemporary spoken and written English are losing their identity as distinct forms of language.' While writing on-line with computers has hastened this trend, computers didn't initiate it. (However, through at least the end of the nineteenth century, spoken rhetorical skills were also seen as critically important to people with social and educational aspirations.) Since World War II, written English (at least in America) has increasingly come to reflect everyday speech. By the seventeenth century, the written (and printed) word was developing its own autonomous identity, a transformation that matured in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and first half of the twentieth centuries. Throughout the Middle Ages, written English predominately served transcript functions, enabling readers to represent earlier spoken words or (oral) ceremony, or to produce durable records of events, ideas, or spoken exchange. 'n the course of the language's history, the relationship between spoken and written English has come nearly full circle. The Relationship Between Spoken and Written English.(Jenny Cheshire, 'Spoken Standard English.' Standard English: The Widening Debate, ed. The nature of standard English as primarily a written variety, together with the immersion of academics in written English, does not augur well for their recognition of structures that may be more typical of spoken English than written English.' Resources for helping teachers delivering spoken English classes in China.įor more information including free sample topics click here.' inguists have inevitably had a long-standing and intensive contact with standard English. KICK-ASS LESSON PLANS: 66 TOPICS for TEACHING SPOKEN ENGLISH, (CHINA).Īlso TEFL Discussion Questions & Activities China (Kindle) For more information including free sample topics click here.People who want to learn to talk and listen naturally like a native speaker. People who are interested in speaking English. Professionals who need to talk with foreign clients as part of their job. Students doing their IELTS (or TOEFL) exams. IELTS BREAKER: 100 TOPICS FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING PRACTICE (Student Book) (WORLD). Activities are fun and practical while aimed at improving the learner’s ability through fluency, accuracy and confidence. Smart English is dedicated to helping both students and teachers regarding spoken English. Welcome to Smart English: ESL EFL Speaking Practice

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