Perspectives on Teaching Connected Speech to Second Language Speakers

This book contains a collection of fourteen articles on connected speech of interest to teachers, researchers, and materials developers in both ESL/EFL (ten chapters focus on connected speech in English) and Japanese (four chapters focus on Japanese connected speech). The fourteen chapters are divided up into five sections:

>What do we know so far about teaching connected speech?

>Does connected speech instruction work?

>How should connected speech be taught in English?

>How should connected speech be taught in Japanese?

>How should connected speech be tested?