Evocative Coaching: Transforming Schools One Conversation at a Time
There?s a lot of conversation about how to make schools better. Unfortunately, the nature of those conversations often makes things worse. Evocative Coaching: Transforming Schools One Conversation at a Time maps out a way to change that. By taking a teacher-centered, no-fault, strengths-based approach to performance improvement, the Evocative Coaching model generates the motivation and movement that enables teachers and schools to achieve desired outcomes and enhance quality of life.
In almost any field, the ability to connect with others immediately through knowledge of a particular subject area is vital to gaining trust, solidifying rela­tion­ships, and getting ideas across. Convincing others that you "know what you're talking about" can help win clients, gain allies, make sales, and much more...but tricks and shortcuts like peppering conversation with jargon or ran­dom facts can seem transparent at best, and often work against your intent.
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.
Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy: A Guide for ESL/ EFL Teachers (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series)
Conversation and speaking skills are the key building blocks for much of language learning. This text increases teachers’ awareness about spoken language and suggests ways of applying that knowledge to teaching second-language interaction skills based on insights from Conversation Analysis (CA)
Matt Purland from Banana English.com will teach you simple words in Polish. There are 30 topics as follows: 1. Greetings and Introductions 2. Common Words and Phrases 3. Food 4. Fruit 5. vegetables 6. In the Kitchen 7. Meat 8. Days of the Week 9. Love and Romance Read more...
