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Usó-Juan, Esther and Alicia Martínez-Flor: Current Trends in the Development and Teaching of the Four Language Skills. Mouton de Gruyter, 2006.

Usó-Juan, Esther and Alicia Martínez-Flor: Current Trends in the Development and Teaching of the... Applied Linguistics 28/3: 474–486  Oxford University Press 2007 REVIEWS Uso ´ -Juan, Esther and Alicia Martı ´nez-Flor: CURRENT TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHING OF THE FOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS. Mouton de Gruyter, 2006. This volume is, up to the present time, the only contribution in Mouton de Gruyter’s Series Studies on Language Acquisition which examines second language acquisition in relation to instructional practices. Rather than empirical reliability, Esther Uso ´ -Juan and Alicia Martı´nez-Flor’s edited volume offers a high level of theoretical insight prompted by the contributing authors’ belief in the positive influence of the four-language-skills approach to the development of second/foreign language (L2) communicatively competent learners. Almost a decade afterwards, this work comes to further support William Grabe’s (1998) foreword statements underlying the raison d’eˆtre for his Annual Review of Applied Linguistics edited volume: ‘the four skills framework has never really gone away, and it is still an underlying assumption driving many current discussions and curriculum planning, whether for good or for bad’ (Grabe 1998: vii). In an attempt to update the research on the teaching of the four language skills and bridge the gap between common classroom practices and research perspectives, this particular work upgrades the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Applied Linguistics Oxford University Press

Usó-Juan, Esther and Alicia Martínez-Flor: Current Trends in the Development and Teaching of the Four Language Skills. Mouton de Gruyter, 2006.

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Applied Linguistics , Volume 28 (3) – Sep 1, 2007
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Applied Linguistics 28/3: 474–486  Oxford University Press 2007 REVIEWS Uso ´ -Juan, Esther and Alicia Martı ´nez-Flor: CURRENT TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHING OF THE FOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS. Mouton de Gruyter, 2006. This volume is, up to the present time, the only contribution in Mouton de Gruyter’s Series Studies on Language Acquisition which examines second language acquisition in relation to instructional practices. Rather than empirical reliability, Esther Uso ´ -Juan and Alicia Martı´nez-Flor’s edited volume offers a high level of theoretical insight prompted by the contributing authors’ belief in the positive influence of the four-language-skills approach to the development of second/foreign language (L2) communicatively competent learners. Almost a decade afterwards, this work comes to further support William Grabe’s (1998) foreword statements underlying the raison d’eˆtre for his Annual Review of Applied Linguistics edited volume: ‘the four skills framework has never really gone away, and it is still an underlying assumption driving many current discussions and curriculum planning, whether for good or for bad’ (Grabe 1998: vii). In an attempt to update the research on the teaching of the four language skills and bridge the gap between common classroom practices and research perspectives, this particular work upgrades the

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