Suggestions for the effective use of the dialog in audiolingual language classes include descriptions of (1) planned preliminary activities, (2) method of presenting and drilling dialog lines, and (3) the instructional potential of mastered material. Significant emphasis is placed on practices advocated by Gaarder. (AF)

Special emphasis is placed on the potential of dialog learning in a discussion of a sequence of activities and materials appropriate for developing the recognition and selection levels of activity involved in listening to a foreign language. Also referred to are the (1) procedural features of presentation, (2) emotional problems possibly resulting…

Understanding spontaneous speech is a very difficult task for many foreign students. They must be taught to use all the ethnographic cues available to enable them to predict the likely content of a text. They must predict not only the factual content of spoken language but also the interactional structuring. (Author/CFM)