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Coombs, Virginia M. – 1981
This paper discusses how an understanding of speech acts contributes to the communicative competence in foreign language learning. Reviewing John Searle's five categories of speech acts (1976), the directive is discussed in terms of its manifestations in various foreign languages. Examples of directives in English, German, French, and Spanish are…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning

Pennycook, Alastair – TESOL Quarterly, 1985
Discusses the components of paralanguage, that is, kinesics, proxemics, and paraverbal features. Argues that paralanguage plays a crucial role in human interaction and is highly culture-specific. Discusses its implications with respect to second language learning and ways in which it can be included in the second-language classroom. (SED)
Descriptors: Body Language, English (Second Language), Paralinguistics, Personal Space
McNerney, Maureen; Mendelsohn, David – TESL Talk, 1987
Provides a set of priorities and learning activities for a short-term English as a second language pronunciation course. These include: stress/unstress, major sentence stress, intonation, and linking and pausing. (CB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Intonation, Learning Activities, Pronunciation Instruction
Naiman, Neil – TESL Talk, 1987
The communicative approach used in the teaching of second languages is also effective in teaching pronunciation of English as a second language. Communicative principles and activities in the areas of consonants and vowels, contractions, recued expressions and linking, suprasegmentals, and monitoring are discussed. (CB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Consonants, English (Second Language), Language Fluency
Archibald, John – TESL Talk, 1987
Drama can act as a bridge between the classroom and the real world in teaching students to communicate in a second language. Teaching techniques using drama to help improve students' pronunciation of English as a second language are described, as they relate to articulation, pitch, volume, rate, and variety. (CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Communicative Competence (Languages), Dramatic Play, English (Second Language)