Pragmatics
Subtitle: teaching natural conversation
By: Noel R. Houck and Donna H. Tatsuki
Series: TESOL classroom practice series; TESOL classroom practice series
Publisher: Teachers Of English
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Alexandria, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781931185707
Subjects: Pragmatics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / Noel R. Houck and Donna H. Tatsuki; title: 2. Assessing familiarity with pragmatic formulas: planning oral/aural assessment / Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig; title: 3. No, thanks.  I'm full! Raising awareness of expressions of gratitude and conventional expressions / Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and Edelmira L. Nickels; title: 4. Oh, I'm sorry!  Are you all right?  Teaching apologies / Carmella Lieske; title: 5. Have you paid someone a compliment today / Jessie Carduner; title: 6. Male and female complimenting behavior / Anne McLellan Howard; title: Taking turns and talking naturally: teaching conversational turn-taking / Donald Carroll; title: 8. Teaching preference organization: learning how not to say "no" / Donald Carroll; title: Pragmatic competency in telephone conversation openings / Jean Wong; title: 10. Pragmatic competency in Telephone conversation closings / Jean Wong; title: Responders: continuers / David Olsher; title: 12. Responders: change-of-state tokens, news markers, and assessments / David Olsher; title: 13. Developing students' language awareness / Maria Dantas-Whitney