Speaking to the screen with Niall Curry

With speaking in English being the most difficult skill to master among second language users, the move to online teaching and learning creates further barriers and challenges. Understanding how to help learners become better speakers remains at the core of ELT research and, in both face-to-face and digital contexts, this work focuses not just on developing speaking skills, but the ability to converse in English. Such research often centres on identifying trends and patterns that differentiate spoken and w