Speaking and Instructed Foreign Language Acquisition

Abstract

PrefacePart I: Theoretical perspectives on instructed acquisition of speaking 1.Miros?aw Pawlak: Instructed acquisition of speaking: Reconciling theory and practice 2.Agnieszka Nowicka and Weronika Wilczy?ska: Authenticity in oral communication of instructed l 2 learners 3.Piotr Bia?as: Formulaic sequences in the output of instructed l 2 learners 4.Agnieszka Wrobel: Formulaicity vs. fluency and accuracy in using English as a foreign language. 5.Jan Majer: Talking the same language: Sociocultural aspects of code-switching in l 2 classroom discourse 6.Anna Ni?egorodcew: Speaking in English for Academic Purposes in the light of Lingua Franca English Part II: Speaking and individual variables 7.Adriana Biedro?: Near-nativeness as a function of cognitive and personality factors. Three case studies of highly able foreign language learners 8.Ewa Waniek-Klimczak: 'I am good at speaking, but I failed my phonetics class' - pronunciation and speaking in advanced learners of English 9.Krystyna Dro?dzia?-Szelest: Oral skills awareness of advanced ESL learners 10.Aneta Ca?ka: Pronunciation learning strategies - identification and classification 11.Magdalena Wrembel: Metaphonetic awareness in the production of speech 12.Krzysztof Nerlicki: Foreign language speaking anxiety from the perspective of Polish students of German studies 13.Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel: The relationship between language anxiety and the development of the speaking skill. Results of a longitudinal studyPart III: Research into instructed acquisition of speaking 14.Sebastian Piotrowski: On the authenticity of communication in the foreign language classroom 15.Irena Czwenar: Ways to proficiency in spoken English as a foreign language - tracing individual development 16.Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak: Task repetition as a way of enhancing oral communication in a foreign language 17.Mariusz Kruk: The use of the Internet and Instant Messengers in assisting the acquisition of speaking skills in English lessons 18.Dorota Werbi?ska: Investigating the perception of speaking skills with metaphor-based methods 19.Jolanta Szpyra-Koz?owska: Phonetically difficult words in intermediate learners' English 20.Przemys?aw Krakowian: Transcultural interference, communities of practice and collaborative assessment of oral performance