Dialogue Activities: Exploring Spoken Interaction in the Language Class [Paperback]

This book provides practical ideas to encourage students to look at spoken language in different contexts using transcripts and authentic conversations.This book provides practical ideas to encourage students to look at spoken language in different contexts using transcripts and authentic conversations.This book provides practical ideas to encourage students to look at spoken language in different contexts using transcripts and authentic conversations.Dialogue Activities provides over 100 practical activities for teachers to adapt for their classrooms. These activities encourage learners to look at the English language through dialogues and spoken interaction from coursebooks, literature and media, as well as authentic conversation extracts. The book explores using dialogue to communicate personal meaning effectively. It covers dialogue as both 'product' and 'process' in language teaching and will encourage learners to look beyond conventional communicative strategies and practise spoken language in a fresh contextualised way.Introduction, 1.Understanding , 2. Analysing, 3. Reproducing and reconstructing, 4. Memorising, 5. Rehearsing and performing, 6. Co-constructing, 7. Creating and personalising, 8. Communicating, 9. Dialogue as Learning, Appendices