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Conversation Strategies and Communicative Competence
About this book
The book reports on research into teaching conversation strategies as a means of developing communicative competence. The introductory chapter defines key terms and positions this book's aims and arguments. The next four chapters each describe a different study examining the teaching of conversation strategies in a different way: a learner corpus investigation of strategies used by both learners and users of English as a lingua franca; a materials evaluation study based on the responses of teachers in a variety of contexts; an experimental study in an ESL context, comparing the effects of teaching conversation strategies to a control group receiving no instruction; and finally a qualitative diary and interview study in an EFL context. The author concludes by discussing the implications of these studies for teachers and researchers.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface by Tim Murphey, Series Editor
- About the Author
- Foreword by Jeanne McCarten and Michael McCarthy
- Preamble
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. What are Conversation Strategies and Why Teach Them?
- CHAPTER 2. Study 1: Corpus Analysis
- CHAPTER 3. Study 2: Materials Evaluation
- CHAPTER 4. Study 3: Mixed-Methods Study in an ESL Context
- CHAPTER 5. Study 4: Action Research Study in an EFL Context
- Conclusion
- Publication Information