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Undergraduate students,
Graduate students, Academic researchers, Pre/in-service teacher
training
This book provides a comprehensive account of conversation in
English and its implications for the ELT classroom. After a general
overview and definition of conversation it provides the reader with
a systematic description of conversational English, from the
vocabulary of conversation, to grammar, discourse and genre. This is
followed by an informed account of the development of conversation
in both first and second language acquisition. It then describes a
range of methodological approaches, procedures and techniques for
teaching conversation in English. On this basis, an integrated
approach to the teaching of conversation is provided, along with
practical classroom applications.
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