This book contains a collection of fourteen articles on connected speech of interest to teachers, researchers, and materials developers in both ESL/EFL (ten chapters focus on connected speech in English) and Japanese (four chapters focus on Japanese connected speech). The fourteen chapters are divided up into five sections: >>What do we know so far about teaching connected speech? >>Does connected speech instruction work? >>How should connected speech be taught in English? >>How should connected speech be taught in Japanese? >>How should connected speech be tested?