Thurrell Sarah, Dornyei Zoltan. Conversation and Dialogues in Action (Classroom Techniques and Resources)

Conversation and Dialogues in Action is a collection of communicative activities to teach conversational skills in a foreign/second language by exploiting instructional dialogues.
The book offers teachers material that can be directly used in class. Authors offer language teachers material which can be adapted with various inputs for their own classroom work. The activities are accessible and user-friendly, with a clear identification of teacher and learner roles. All the activities consist of tried and tested tasks.
This book breaks down conversation into its own grammar, showing how people open and close conversations, take turns at talking, interrupt or reformulate what others say.
The tasks suggest a great range of ways in which learners can work together on conversational tasks in class.
The book can be used to supplement coursebook-based teaching at all levels, or to form the basis of special conversation classes.
Prentice Hall International English Language Teaching, 1992
ISBN 0-13-175035-6 (pbk)