Wish you knew how to walk up to anyone and break the ice effortlessly? Avoid awkward silences and make an instant impression? You'll get more than that in this book: not only WHAT, WHEN, and HOW to say it, but the exact roots of WHY from human psychology and interaction. Flowing conversation is the basis of all of our friendships and relationships, there's no getting around it. Yet sometimes it feels like we just can't connect in the depth we want without some luck on our part. Why? Because Conversationally Speaking, most people haven't broken down the patterns of a great conversation. Specific principles get specific responses, and that's exactly what we want, isn't it?
Let's Talk in English, first published in 1981, and Studio Classroom rank number one and two as the best-selling English magazines in Taiwan. Let's Talk in English, the best domestic English conversation magazine, has earned the IBC Good Programs Award. It provides practical vocabulary and conversation skills to help you learn to speak English well by using simple, useful vocabulary.
This popular topic-based conversation text offers readers the chance to express their ideas, opinions, and values in English, while concurrently expanding their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. Organized by theme and communicative function, React Interact stimulates conversation and lively classroom discussion with high-interest topics and thought-provoking questions.
Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse
Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book presents the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen's best-selling books about the role of language in human relationships. It provides a clear framework for understanding how ordinary conversation works to create meaning and establish relationships. A significant theoretical and methodological contribution to both linguistic and literary analysis, it uses transcripts of tape-recorded conversation to demonstrate that everyday conversation is made of features that are associated with literary discourse: repetition, dialogue, and details that create imagery.
The opening essay on language development explores the factors that can affect a child s ability to learn his or her first language. As the article stresses, it s imperative that children have strong and healthy relationships with their parents and caregivers, and it s equally critical that their school environment promotes social interaction and conversation to advance the language learning process. In her essay on psycholinguistics, Edith Arrington details the skills and processes that comprise language competency.
