Books to read for speaking
Theory
- Brown, G. and G. Yule. (1983). Teaching the Spoken Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Byrne, D. (1986). Teaching Oral English. Longman House
- Bygate, M. (1987). Speaking. Oxford University Press
- Littlewood, W. (1992). Teaching Oral Communication. Oxford.
- Tsui, A.B.M. (1994). English Conversation. Oxford University Press
- Goh, C. C. M. & Burns, A. (2012). Teaching speaking: A holistic approach. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Practice
- Harmer, J. (1984). The Practice of English Language Teaching. London: Longman.
- Klippel, F., Klippel, J. H., & Ur, P. (1984). Keep talking: Communicative fluency activities for language teaching. Cambridge University Press.
- Nunan, D., (2003). Practical English Language Teaching. NY:McGraw-Hill.
- Nunan, D. (1989). Designing tasks for the communicative classroom. Cambridge University Press.
- Richards, J. (2008). Teaching speaking and listening. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
- Nation, I. S., & Newton, J. (2008). Teaching ESL/EFL listening and speaking. Routledge.
- Burns, A., & Siegel, J. (Eds.). (2017). International Perspectives on Teaching the Four Skills in ELT: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing. Springer.
- Newton, J. M., Ferris, D. R., Goh, C. C., Grabe, W., Stoller, F. L., & Vandergrift, L. (2018). Teaching English to second language learners in academic contexts: Reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Routledge.
Assessment
- Fulcher, G. (2014). Testing second language speaking. Routledge.
- Luoma, S. (2004). Assessing speaking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.