Conversation Strategies – Activities for Developing Communicative Competence
Posted on June 8th, 2009
What are Conversation Strategies? They are techniques that help the speaker and listener keep a conversation going to its natural and desired conclusion. They are skills that supplement the linguistic and sociolinguistic skills most texts focus on: grammar, vocabulary, and usage. To develop strategic competence, students must learn the words, phrases, and conventions used as two speakers engage in the active give-and-take of conversation. These are the strategies we use to get more information, make comparisons, correct someone politely, agree and disagree, summarize, share information, and make decisions in a business meeting. Students also practice polite forms, rejoinders, clarifications, follow-up questions, getting a response, expressing probability, interrupting, and avoiding conversation killers. Each activity has three parts: a teacher’s introduction, a written introductory exercise to be done by students individually, and pair/group practice that makes us!e of in (more…)
Websites to Help You Improve English Conversation Skills
- better conversation skills – good conversation made easy
- Three Skills to Improve Conversation | Brian Tracy’s Blog – One key to becoming a great conversationalist is to pause before replying. A short pause, of three to five seconds, is a very classy thing to do.
- Three Skills to Improve Conversation – Tips to improve English Conversation
- Improve Your Writing with a Conversation Tone – Conversational writing causes your brain to wake-up and pay attention. Your brain thinks it’s in a real conversation, even though you’re reading text on a page. If you’re developing learning content, teaching or helping your child study for a test – use a conversation. Your reader’s brain will thank you for it.
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