Conversation
Subtitle: From Description to Pedagogy (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521814263
Subjects: ELT: teaching theory & methods; Language; English as a Second Language; Foreign Language Study; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; English; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; Language and languages; Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language; Discourse analysis; Conversation analysis; Study and teaching
Description: "This book provides a comprehensive account of conversation in English and its implications for the ELT classroom. After a general overview and definition of conversation it provides the reader with a systematic description of conversational English, from the vocabulary of conversation, to grammar, discourse and genre. This is followed by an informed account of the development of conversation in both first and second language acquisition. It then describes a range of methodological approaches, procedures and techniques for teaching conversation in English. On this basis, an integrated approach to the teaching of conversation is provided, along with practical classroom applications."--Jacket.