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Laurie Massery; Ka Wing Cheung; Anna Wachsmuth – NECTFL Review, 2023
This study provides a research-based approach to reimagining the world language classroom through open educational resources (OER), primarily in higher education. Using quantitative and qualitative analyses, we provide insight into students' perceptions of OER in world language education classrooms, with a specific focus on conversation courses.…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Conversational Language Courses
Kishi, Adrienne – English Teaching Forum, 2017
While written exercises may serve students adequately on tests, the structures they emphasize can remain elusive or difficult for students to master in conversation. Students tend to interpret their difficulty in applying what they have learned as a lack of language ability, and they can quickly lose confidence when speaking. Producing a target…
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Language Proficiency, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning
Butler, Geoffrey; Heslup, Simon; Kurth, Lara – English Teaching Forum, 2015
Curriculum design and implementation can be a daunting process. Questions quickly arise, such as who is qualified to design the curriculum and how do these people begin the design process. According to Graves (2008), in many contexts the design of the curriculum and the implementation of the curricular product are considered to be two mutually…
Descriptors: Units of Study, Curriculum Design, Student Needs, English (Second Language)
Kang-Young, Lee – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
This study collects 11 high-school EFL conversation textbooks used in Korea and sees how the textbooks teach culture since language learning is closely tied to culture learning (Kramsch, 2002). Conversation materials are chosen because socio-cultural values and norms are best acquired during the process of interaction (Scollon & Scollon,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Cultural Awareness, Instructional Materials, Foreign Countries

Santoni, Georges V. – Foreign Language Annals, 1974
A great variety of authentic cultural elements may be introduced in the foreign language classroom, not at the expense of language learning but as an interrelated system. (Author)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Cross Cultural Studies, Culture Contact, French

Carton-Caprio, Dana – Modern Language Journal, 1974
Explains how to simulate dinner at a foreign restaurant to aid language learning in adult education classes. (CK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Conversational Language Courses, Instructional Materials

Kubler, Cornelius C. – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1993
"Xiangsheng," a Chinese oral art form, are written and performed using idiomatic, colloquial Beijing speech and thus provide excellent material for studying spoken Chinese. Suggestions for preparing xiangsheng as teaching materials and teaching xiangsheng in the classroom are offered. Chinese character transcription, pinyin transcription,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Conversational Language Courses, Idioms, Instructional Materials
Zhou, Qijia – Online Submission, 2006
In this essay the author attempts to put forward an innovative teaching mode in the course of "English Conversation" for sophomore English majors in China. In this mode an authentic conversation is used as the teaching material and the theoretic aspects of Conversation Analysis (CA) are applied for the teaching of the course. This mode…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Duda, R.; Laurens, J. P. – Langues Modernes, 1975
This article discusses the use of authentic oral documents such as radio or television programs as instructional materials for teaching English to native French speakers. Sample transcriptions are included, and teaching methods are discussed. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Autoinstructional Aids, Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language)
Indakwa, John; And Others – 1966
This textbook is aimed towards the beginning student of Swahili and is designed to cover almost all the main features of Swahili structure. The course is divided into 87 "cycles," each of which begins with an "M" phase (mimicry, meaning, manipulation, memorization), and ends with a "C" phase (conversation and…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bantu Languages, Conversational Language Courses, Glossaries

Chabert, Henry – French Review, 1976
This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of conversation classes for learning a foreign language, and outlines three basic prerequisites for a successful conversation class: a small, homogeneous group, actual facts and ideas available for discussion, and a basic working vocabulary. (CLK)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, French, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
Schwartz, Leon – French Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Conversational Language Courses, Evaluation

Keller, Howard H. – Russian Language Journal, 1975
This article discusses the advantages and ways of using the Monopoly game in Russian language conversation courses in American schools. Procedures for developing a Russian language version of the game are outlined. (CLK)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Conversational Language Courses, Cultural Awareness, Educational Games
Yano, Yasuyuki – Modern English Journal, 1975
Lesson 6 of the "New Horizon English Course 3" is presented. An appendix giver English exercises for lessons 1-11 of the same book. These lessons are intended to help improve the oral skills of junior high school students in Japan learning English as a second language. (Text is in Japanese.) (TL)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials

Hockett, Charles F.; Fang, Chaoying – 1944
This is one of a series of self-teaching textbooks initially prepared for the Armed Forces and now offered to the public. Book 1 is divided into two main sections, each consisting of five lessons and a review lesson. Each lesson is divided into several sections: basic sentences, word study, pronunciation practice, grammar and conversational…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Chinese, Conversational Language Courses, Grammar