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Pragmatics: Teaching Natural Conversation
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Houck, Noel R., Ed.; Tatsuki, Donna H., Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2011
This volume offers teachers in the ESL/EFL classroom some of the first published materials for guiding learners past grammar into authentic-sounding (conventional) utterances and sequences, replacing the scripted unnatural or stilted dialogue provided in textbooks. Teachers will find a range of pedagogical activities to put to immediate use in the…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Textbooks, Metalinguistics, Familiarity