Richard, J. C. (2008). Teaching listening and speaking: From theory to practice.

New York:
Cambridge University Press.

The book entitled “Teaching istening and Speaking: From Theory to Practice” is
about the theory of teaching listening and speaking in teaching English and the
examples of the practice of the theory in real situation of classroom. Firstly, the book
points out the understanding of spoken discourse which refers to bootom-up and top-
down processing and give some keywords and example of it and the strategies in
teaching listening. Second, the author points out the theory in teaching speaking
includes the features of spoken discourse, styles and function of speaking and some
expamles of sequence activities in teaching speaking. Altought the author explains
the theory on teaching listening and speaking, the author does not explain it deeply. It
can be called that it just a brief explanation of teaching listening and speaking and
some of examples of the practices. No more details about each activity which
provided in the booklet, the challanges for teacher in teaching listening and speaking
in real situation and how to solve those problems. This booklet is good for teachers
or readers who have a basic knowledge about theory of teaching listening and
speaking. Because as explined before that the author explains it briefly not in detail.
This book is a good resources for researchers to find the gap betweeen the theory and
the practice in classroom.