Conversation
Strategies 101
When:
Tuesday,
October 14th 2014, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Where:
Online
Recent research has given
us interesting insights into many aspects of how we communicate. Based on
research from the Cambridge International Corpus of North American
Spoken English, this session from the Touchstone authors,
Helen Sandiford and Jeanne McCarten, will consider the kinds of strategies
speakers use to manage conversations.
They will illustrate:
- what conversation
strategies are (e.g. ways to show or check understanding, to start and end
conversations, or to involve other speakers in a conversation etc.);
- why we need to teach
these kinds of strategies to our students and how they can contribute to
fluency in English;
- some important
pointers when teaching these strategies in the classroom.
There will be
demonstrations of useful strategies to teach and helpful activities throughout
the presentation, meaning you will finish the session with the confidence to
start teaching conversation strategies to your students.
Jeanne McCarten is one of
the authors of Touchstone. She taught English in Sweden, France, Malaysia and
UK before becoming an ELT writer, and is interested in applying insights from
corpus research to language teaching. Touchstone author Helen Sandiford has
extensive teacher and teacher training experience having spent nine years in
Japan setting up English programs, and teaching in Japanese senior high schools
and vocational colleges.
More information: http://zip.net/bbpHJg
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