Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy

by Scott Thornbury and Diana Slade

Book Overview

This book provides a comprehensive account of conversation in English and its implications for the ELT classroom. After a general overview and definition of conversation it provides the reader with a systematic description of conversational English, from the vocabulary of conversation, to grammar, discourse and genre. This is followed by an informed account of the development of conversation in both first and second language acquisition. It then describes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521891167
• ISBN13: 9780521891165
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 9.1"