This document provides a book review of the book "Spoken English (flourish your language)" by Robert Carmen. The review summarizes that the book aims to help students improve their speaking skills in English. It contains 12 chapters covering topics like pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and conversations. The book provides engaging dialogs on everyday topics to give students practice speaking fluently and comprehensively. While the book is well designed overall, adding a CD-ROM for pronunciation practice and exercises at the end of chapters could further help students learn.
This document provides a book review of the book "Spoken English (flourish your language)" by Robert Carmen. The review summarizes that the book aims to help students improve their speaking skills in English. It contains 12 chapters covering topics like pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and conversations. The book provides engaging dialogs on everyday topics to give students practice speaking fluently and comprehensively. While the book is well designed overall, adding a CD-ROM for pronunciation practice and exercises at the end of chapters could further help students learn.
This document provides a book review of the book "Spoken English (flourish your language)" by Robert Carmen. The review summarizes that the book aims to help students improve their speaking skills in English. It contains 12 chapters covering topics like pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and conversations. The book provides engaging dialogs on everyday topics to give students practice speaking fluently and comprehensively. While the book is well designed overall, adding a CD-ROM for pronunciation practice and exercises at the end of chapters could further help students learn.
This document provides a book review of the book "Spoken English (flourish your language)" by Robert Carmen. The review summarizes that the book aims to help students improve their speaking skills in English. It contains 12 chapters covering topics like pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and conversations. The book provides engaging dialogs on everyday topics to give students practice speaking fluently and comprehensively. While the book is well designed overall, adding a CD-ROM for pronunciation practice and exercises at the end of chapters could further help students learn.
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Spoken English; flourish your English written by Robert
Carmen Reviewed by: Shireen Zada, BS8, Roll no 44271, Department of English, Hazara University Dhodial, Mansehra..
Book review: Spoken English (flourish your language)
Speaking is an important part in any language. Speaking skills give us the ability to communicate effectively. These skills allow the speaker to convey his message in a passionate, thoughtful, and convincing manner. Speaking skills also help to assure that one will not be misunderstood by those who are listening. The book “Spoken English (flourish your language)” which is written by Robert Carmen helps the students in improving speaking skills. This book has interesting chapters like common errors, which will help students in avoiding all the mistakes students usually make while speaking English. The book consists of twelve chapter: Contractions, Pronunciation, Vowels, Stress in English Language, List of English Symbols, Conversation, Common Errors, Tongue twisters, Phrasal verbs, Cliché, Slangs. The cover page of any book impacts the reader. It is the very first thing that impress and attract the reader. The tittle page allows the reader to identify the work at first glance. This book has an attractive and beautiful cover page includes a beautiful photograph and the name of the book which is written in bold on one corner of the picture. The other important thing about this book is the arrangement of the chapters and lessons in it. The order of the chapter are very impressive and this arrangement makes it easy for students to understand and use this book effectively. The easy chapters which build the concept for difficult lesson placed first and then harder and harder. Chapters are structured very simply, in the start of every chapter there is a brief introduction of topics with example. The texts in the Spoken English flourish your language involve daily use vocabulary which is important and necessary as well for student to learn that and bring those words in use. There are many conversation on different topics like meeting with friends, dialogue between teacher and student etc. each conversation is taken from daily life. Another critical component of speaking is fluency. Someone`s fluency in speaking indicates his or her competence in that language. A person may write without proper knowledge of grammar and sentence structure; he or she can read without proper pronunciation, listen without proper listening skill; whereas, speaking skills depends on the total knowledge of a language (vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, listening skills etc.). When we take part in an interaction, we not only speak but also listen. If we use wrong English, we fail to communicate properly and get an instant feedback of this failure. It is an important part of everyday interaction. The first impression of a person language skill depends on his or her ability to speak fluently and comprehensively. As mentioned above the Spoken English flourish your language consists of many conversation which help the student in practicing the fluency of the students. Speaking has acquired great importance along the history of English teaching since it is referred as an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing, receiving and processing information (Brown, 1994; Burns & Joyce, 1997). English has become primordial worldwide for it has become a lingua franca. Therefore, it is the main source for communicating in many fields. Richards (1990) states that the mastery of speaking skill in English is seen as a priority for many EFL learners across the world. Moreover, he adds that learners consequently often evaluate their success in language learning as well as the effectiveness of their English course based on how well they feel they have improved in their spoken language skill. The Spoken English emphasizes on this skill and it consists of many lesson to improve the speaking skill of the students. Including interesting and relevant topics is critical for learner engagement and motivation. One of the authors` interest goals is to interest students through a wide range of interesting dialogues. Conversation topics in this book include introduction, goodbye, what time is it, checking in, passport control, direction, getting a room for the night, ordering a meal, what shall we do, planning for going out etc. when contents is of interest and relevant to their lives, students will be more motivated and interested to practice language and to become successful speakers. According to Guthrie and Davies (2003) if students are interested in the topics, they are much more likely to invest the necessary time and effort to practice in second language speaking. Although the book is very well designed in general, there are few aspects that could be improved. While the book has many lessons and practicing dialogue, there is no CD-ROM for the student. If there were a CD-ROM, it would help the students in practicing the dialogues and it also would help in real pronunciation. It also would help the students in body language and gestures. . As we all know that testing play an important role in learning. There is no exercise at the end of any chapter, as this would help both students and instructors benefit from this important aspect. Overall, the Spoken English provides a wide range of interesting and a very important topics and relevant topics. All the important contents which are key to practice speaking are included here. The book contain exciting content that will motivate student and that will attract students to practice the second language. Students who use this book will experience with words that they will encounter in real life contexts. All in all this book will help the students to speak correct and fluent English.
