Conversation Strategies: Pair and Group Activities for Developing Communicative Competence - Softcover

Kehe, David; Kehe, Peggy Dustin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0866471898 ISBN 13: 9780866471893

Publisher: Pro Lingua Associates, 2004

Synopsis

What are Conversation Strategies? They are techniques that help the speaker and listener keep a conversation going to its natural and desired conclusion. They are skills that supplement the linguistic and sociolinguistic skills most texts focus on: grammar, vocabulary, and usage. To develop strategic competence, students must learn the words, phrases, and conventions used as two speakers engage in the active give-and-take of conversation. These are the strategies we use to get more information, make comparisons, correct someone politely, agree and disagree, summarize, share information, and make decisions in a business meeting. Students also practice polite forms, rejoinders, clarifications, follow-up questions, getting a response, expressing probability, interrupting, and avoiding conversation killers. Each activity has three parts: a teacher's introduction, a written introductory exercise to be done by students individually, and pair/group practice that makes us!e of information gap and other interactive formats. Each fun, student-centered activity begins with controlled language and moves to open, imaginative exchanges. The work is enjoyable for students and teacher. Easy to use in any intermediate level class.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pro Lingua Associates
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0866471898
• ISBN 13: 9780866471893
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 150
• Illustrator: Toos Andrew