Teaching Conversational Skills Intensively: Course Content and Rationale.

Dornyei, Zoltan; Thurrell, Sarah

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ERIC Number: EJ479582

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1994

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Teaching Conversational Skills Intensively: Course Content and Rationale.

Dornyei, Zoltan; Thurrell, Sarah

ELT Journal, v48 n1 p40-49 Jan 1994

Topics for conversation courses include conversational rules and structure, conversational strategies, functions and meaning in conversation, and social and cultural contexts. The direct teaching of conversational skills involves adding specific language input, increasing the role of consciousness raising, and sequencing communicative tasks systematically. (Contains 14 references.) (JP)

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Linguistic Input, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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