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JD Brown's essential bookshelf: Connected speech

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2023

James Dean Brown
James Dean Brown*
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University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, USA
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James Dean Brown (“JD”) is Professor Emeritus of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He has spoken and taught in places ranging from Albuquerque to Zagreb and published hundreds of articles and 27 books on language testing, curriculum design, research methods, and connected speech. His books on reduced forms and connected speech are: Perspectives on teaching connected speech to second language learners, edited with K. Kondo-Brown (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa NFLRC, 2006); New ways of teaching connected speech, Editor (TESOL, 2012a); and Shaping students’ pronunciation: Teaching the connected speech of North American English, co-authored with D. Crowther (Routledge, 2022).

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Language Teaching , Volume 57 , Issue 4 , October 2024 , pp. 562 - 574
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