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Godev, Concepcion B. – NECTFL Review, 2003
Presents a method for managing and teaching oral presentation in the conversational foreign language class. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Oral Language, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Slaney, Noel – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1984
Describes and gives examples of "chatter chain," a method of teaching pupils to develop their French oral skills from a single question and answer that lead to a short conversation. This method combines the main linguistic structures to be learned with enought new grammar to allow a fair degree of pupil choice. (SED)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, French, Grammar
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Rivers, Wilga – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1981
Five directions foreign language departments should explore in the 1980s in order to revitalize their programs include uniting foreign language and international studies, cross-cultural studies, teaching process of communication, career preparation, and language for humanistic studies. (BK)
Descriptors: Careers, College Second Language Programs, Communications, Conversational Language Courses
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Schaefer, Dolores A. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
Describes the suggestopedic method and an experiment using it in an American college elementary language class. The class organization, the way suggestopedia works, the classroom program, and results of suggestopedic courses are discussed. (AMH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Conversational Language Courses, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
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Ajiboye, Tunde – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1985
The principle of oral fluency instruction concerns the teacher's role, which is to monitor the spread, balance, and flow of the conversation. Techniques have to do with the constituents and mode of oral activity, material resources, and the year abroad. (SED)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Communication, Conversational Language Courses, French
Safnil – Guidelines, 1990
Reasons for Indonesian students' reluctance to practice English are discussed, including absence of classroom follow-up activities. Some teaching/learning principles are noted, followed by some conversation teaching techniques (e.g., using humor, rhymes/songs, and interviews). (Contains 10 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Conversational Language Courses, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Niemeyer, Susan – Forum, 1997
Discusses a survey unit that has been very successful with conversation classes of low-intermediate university English-as-a-foreign-language students. It can easily be adapted for students of various ages and proficiency levels by varying the types of questions as well as class sizes and by changing the number of questions. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Class Size, College Students, Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language)
Mar-Molinero, Clare; Stevenson, Patrick – 1990
A preliminary analysis of the language syllabuses and language students at Southampton University (England) is used to determine needed improvements in language teaching methodology and to establish clear aims and objectives that will build on students' previous experiences, plug gaps that remain, and relate this language learning to the…
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Course Descriptions, Foreign Countries, Grammar Translation Method
Murray, Heather – 1980
Communication as a language-learning goal is legitimate, but it is claimed that some of the situational and functional techniques in pursuit of that goal are not. The value of most of the practice techniques generally used in second language classes is also questioned. In their place, a process of learner-centered analyses and communication…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Discourse Analysis, Drills (Practice)
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Valdman, Albert; Warriner-Burke, Helen P. – Foreign Language Annals, 1980
Discusses the situational-structural syllabus with emphasis on more clearly defining objectives in both scope and content. Four directions for these syllabi are suggested: (1) priority of semantic and functional notions; (2) subordination of grammatical features; (3) introduction of spoken language discourse; and (4) reduction of grammatical…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, Educational Objectives, Instructional Development
Jakobovits, Leon A.; Gordon, Barbara Yaffey – Alberta Modern Language Journal, 1976
Talk is proposed as the subject matter of foreign language courses. The key to acquiring liberated expression lies in the assimilation of the learner to the target culture. Once he/she is assimilated, the learner's involvement in a situation matches the involvement of natives of the target culture. For example, faced with some life circumstance…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Audiolingual Skills, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication
Ervin, Gerard L., Ed. – 1981
Papers in this volume on individualized instruction in foreign languages include: (1) "Individualized Instruction and 'Back to Basics': Are They Compatible?" by Howard B. Altman; (2) "Individualized Instruction in French at Northwestern University" by Margaret Sinclair Breslin; (3) "An Individualized French Program for…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conversational Language Courses