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?