TY - BOOK ID - 85470983 TI - Conversation : from description to pedagogy AU - Thornbury, Scott AU - Slade, Diana PY - 2006 SN - 0511733127 052181426X 0521891167 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Conversation analysis. KW - Discourse analysis. KW - Language and languages KW - Communicative competence. KW - Competence, Communicative KW - Communication KW - Competence and performance (Linguistics) KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Foreign language study KW - Language and education KW - Language schools KW - Discourse grammar KW - Text grammar KW - Semantics KW - Semiotics KW - Analysis of conversation KW - CA (Interpersonal communication) KW - Conversational analysis KW - Oral communication KW - Study and teaching. KW - Language and languages Study and teaching KW - Study and teaching UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85470983 AB - 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 a range of methodological approaches, procedures and techniques for teaching conversation in English. On this basis, an integrated approach to the teaching of conversation is provided, along with practical classroom applications. ER -