Oracy in English Language Education

Julia Reckermann is junior professor for teaching English as a foreign language at the University of Münster, Germany. Her research focuses on young learners, teaching English in inclusive/heterogeneous classrooms, teaching and assessing speaking competences and research-based learning in teacher education. She is also a fully-trained teacher of English as a foreign language and has worked in different schools across Germany. ​Philipp Siepmann is lecturer and researcher in the field of English Language Education at the University of Münster, Germany. His design-based post-doctoral research project investigates oral communication exams in the EFL (English as foreign language) classroom. His other research interests include teaching literature and cultures as well as content and language integrated learning (CLIL). As a fully qualified teacher, he has taught English and Geography (CLIL) at several grammar schools in Germany. Frauke Matz is Chair of English Language Education at the University of Münster, Germany. Her areas of research include cultural learning, cosmopolitan, human and children’s rights approaches to English language education, the assessment of oral competences, and the role multiliteracies and literary texts in learning languages. She is also a fully qualified teacher of English in Germany, has the Qualified Teacher Status (England) and has worked in different schools in both England and Germany.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Practice-Oriented Approaches to Researching Oracy in English Language Education.- Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Researching Oracy in English Language Education.- Chapter 2. Re-Framing Oracy in English Language Education.- Chapter 3. Oracy in the Primary EFL Classroom: Theoretical Considerations and Insights from Empirical Studies.- Chapter 4. Exploring the Teaching of Speaking through Action Research: Teachers’ Voice.- Chapter 5. Educational Design Research for Oracy Development: Why, What, How?.- Part II: Research on Fostering and Assessing Oracy in English Language Education.- Chapter 6. Foreign Language Anxiety and Speaking in English Drama Clubs: Results from a School-and-University Partnership.- Chapter 7.- Implementing an Innovation to Foster Oracy – On the Research-Practice Cooperation in a Design-Based Research Study in Foreign Language Teaching.- Chapter 8. The Challenge of Learning to Listen – Insights into a Design-Based Research Study in German EFL Secondary Education.- Chapter 9. Tasks Matter! Insights from a Design-Based Research Project on Oral Communication Exams in the Secondary EFL Classroom.- Chapter 10. Speaking Connects – Oral Exams at the Transition from the Primary to the Secondary EFL Classroom.- Part III: Enabling Pre-Service Teachers to Foster Oracy – Insights from Research on Teacher Education.- Chapter 11. Developing Chilean Pre-Service EFL Teachers’ Classroom Interactional Competence in Simulated Co-Teaching Practice Sessions.- Chapter 12. The Assessment of Oracy in the EFL Classroom: Introducing a Conversation-Analytic Method for Evaluating Interactional Skills.