Exploring Spoken English
(Author) Ronald CarterExploring Spoken English is a practical guide to the features of natural spoken English, designed for teachers and advanced learners of English for use in groups and for self-study. The material consists of 20 varied extracts of authentic spoken English drawn from the Cambridge University Press and University of Nottingham corpus of spoken English. All the extracts are on an accompanying Audio CDs. Each unit contains an activity for the reader and a line-by-line commentary offering new insights into grammar, vocabulary and discourse patterns in the text. The accompanying CDs contain all the extracts, some re-recorded for the purposes of clarity.
Ronald Carter
Ronald Carter is a renowned British linguist and literary theorist, known for his groundbreaking work "Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk." His writing style is characterized by a deep exploration of the relationship between language and creativity. Carter's key contributions to literature include expanding our understanding of how language shapes our everyday interactions.