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The City: A New Approach to Conversation Classes.
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Urbancic, Anne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Reports on a pilot project which used an imaginary tour of an Italian city as the basis for conversation exercises. (AM)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Higher Education, Italian, Language Instruction
The Foreign Language Composition and Conversation Course: A New Slant.
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Caprio, Anthony S. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Presents various techniques for incorporating social awareness into conversational and composition language courses. (AM)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Social Attitudes
Advanced French Conversation through Popular Music.
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Leith, William D. – French Review, 1979
Describes a method which uses popular French songs to stimulate discussion in a high school level conversational course. (AM)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, French, Higher Education, Language Instruction
A Speech Act Theory Approach to Second-Language Teaching.
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Eppert, Franz; Kuepper, Karl J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Presents a language teaching method designed to increase communicative competence through an application of speech act theory and the use of dialogs and the source language. (AM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis
Live from the Language Lab: Conversation Classes on TV.
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Greene, John – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Describes an experience in using videotape recordings as an aid to developing conversation skills in a university language class. (AM)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Conversational Language Courses, French, Higher Education
Meeting Individual Needs in the College Composition and Conversation Class.
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Normand, Guessler – Foreign Language Annals, 1979
Discusses strategies designed to cope with problems encountered at the college level that are caused by students' diversity in background and levels of competency. Alternatives to the lock-step method of instruction, with applicability at both the college and high school level, are described. (EJS)
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses