Having a significant role in communication, speaking skill is an inborn and improvable ability. Since their existence, human beings have consistently improved this ability in order to communicate with others. Besides, one of the most fundamental keystones of making a healthy contact and living in harmony with different societies are no doubt being…

Describes a partially self-instructional program designed to deal with the correction of errors in second language learning. The purpose of the program is: 1) to sensitize future teachers to types of errors that occur in oral language practice, and 2) to help teachers make decisions as to how to correct errors effectively. (CLK)

Discourse analysis has provided a methodology for the study of conversational interactions between language learner and native speaker. This study examines the verbal and nonverbal strategies that native speakers use when communicating with second language learners in natural, non-academic, "survival type" settings. The areas discussed include:…