Dialogue Activities: Exploring Spoken Interaction in the Language Class

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Cambridge University Press, 16.03.2007 - 244 Seiten
Do your students wonder why the language they cover in class is often different from the spoken language they encounter outside the classroom? This book provides practical ideas to encourage students to look at spoken language in different contexts through the use of transcripts and authentic conversations. It will help them to identify what features of language are used in spoken language and how to sound more natural when they speak themselves. By adopting a view of dialogue as being both 'product' and 'process', Dialogue Activities covers a broad range of teaching purposes including: the use of written and recorded coursebook dialogues, the use of dialogue extracts from literature, the use of authentic conversation extracts, the scripting and performance of original dialogues by learners, the use of dialogue as a means of communicating personal meaning, the use of teacher-learner dialogue as a means of contextualising learning, the history of dialogue use in language teaching, criteria for dialogue choice and design. The book also includes a bank of dialogues which can be used with the activities or used by teachers as models for their own materials. Book jacket.

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