International Perspectives on Teaching the Four Skills in ELT

Chapter 1. Teaching the four language skills: Themes and issues; Anne Burns and Joseph Siegel.- Part I. Listening.- Chapter 2. What teachers say about listening and its pedagogy: a comparison between two countries; Santos and Graham, United Kingdom and Brazil.- Chapter 3. L2 listening in China: An examination of current practice; Renandya and Hu, China.- Chapter 4. The development of a listening course for Japanese university students; McAuliffe and Brooks, Japan.- Chapter 5. Listening instruction for ESP: Exploring nursing education where English is a lingua franca; Tweedie and Johnson, Qatar.- Part II. Speaking.- Chapter 6. 'I can talk about a lot of things in the other language but not in English': Teaching speaking skills in Cameroon primary schools; Tante, Cameroon.- Chapter 7. Inquiry Dialogue: A genre for promoting teacher and student speaking in the classroom; Chappell, Australia.- Chapter 8. Teaching Dialogic Speaking Strategies in a Canadian EAP Program; Pang and Burri, Canada.- Chapter 9. Teaching Conversational English to Adult Learners via Skype: A Russian Perspective; Kozar. Part III. Reading.- Chapter 10. Supporting Elementary Students' Reading through Authentic Literature for Children; Vrastilová, Czech Republic.- Chapter 11. Teaching Reading to Encourage Critical Thinking and Collaborative Work; Murtiningsih and Hapsari, Indonesia.- Chapter 12. Reading Communities: Developing Autonomy through Community Building in an ESL Academic Reading Course; West, United States.- Chapter 13. Reading as Social Practice for Adult Immigrants: Talk around Text; Roach, New Zealand.- Part IV. Writing.- Chapter 14. Promoting Descriptive Writing through Culturally Relevant Literature; Hayik, Israel.- Chapter 15-Using Corrective Feedback on Writing to Enhance Vietnamese learners' autonomy; Pham and Iwashita, Vietnam.- Chapter 16. Promoting Self-Reflection in Writing: A Showcase Portfolio Approach; Lam, Hong Kong.- Chapter 17.'Localizing' second language writing pedagogy in a skills-integrated language program in Brazil; Villas Boas, Brazil.- Chapter 18. Future directions for the four skills; Joseph Siegel and Anne Burns.