1. Parts and Goals of a Listening and Speaking Course 2. Beginning to Listen and Speak in Another Language 3. Listening 4. Extensive Listening 5. Language-focused Learning through Dictation and Related Activities 6. Pronunciation 7. Learning through Task-based Interaction 8. Learning through Pushed Output 9. Teaching Using a Course Book 10. Language-focused Learning: Deliberate Teaching 11. Developing Fluency 12. Assessing Progress

Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees offers suggestions for helping learners at various levels of proficiency develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. It features applied principles, useful teaching techniques, and guidelines for testing and monitoring.