Dialogue Activities: Exploring Spoken Interaction in the Language Class (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers)

✍ Scribed by Nick Bilbrough

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Series: Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Using dialogues in different contexts, this book provides over 100 practical activities for teachers to adapt for their classrooms. These activities encourage learners to look at the English language through dialogues and spoken interaction from coursebooks, literature and media, as well as authentic conversation extracts. The book explores using dialogue to communicate personal meaning effectively. It covers dialogue as both 'product' and 'process' in language teaching and will encourage learners to look beyond conventional communicative strategies and practise spoken language in a fresh contextualised way.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Thanks and acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
What exactly do we mean by dialogue?......Page 13
A brief history of dialogue in language learning......Page 14
Who is this book for?......Page 21
Dialogues for receptive use......Page 22
Dialogues for productive use......Page 24
Setting up and managing dialogue......Page 26
1.1 Understanding dialogues: a basic procedure......Page 29
1.2 Board grab......Page 32
1.3 Reading versus listening......Page 34
1.4 Dialogue interpretation worksheets......Page 35
1.5 Jigsaw......Page 37
1.6 Designing exam questions......Page 38
1.7 What are they talking about?......Page 39
1.8 Snippets......Page 40
1.9 Fairy tale tableaux......Page 41
1.10 Lame jokes......Page 42
1.11 Working with interviews......Page 43
1.12 Dialogue as a way into a graded reader......Page 46
1.13 The bit I like . . .......Page 48
2 Analysing......Page 50
2.2 Closed mouth minimal pairs......Page 51
2.3 Fishermen......Page 53
2.4 Stage directions......Page 56
2.5 Authentic versus scripted dialogues......Page 58
2.6 Dialogue scan race......Page 60
2.7 Filling in......Page 64
2.8 Speech acts......Page 66
2.9 The teacher does the speaking test......Page 67
2.10 Student dialogue reformulation......Page 68
Alternative procedure for longer conversations......Page 70
2.11 Backchannelling......Page 72
3 Reproducing and reconstructing......Page 73
3.1 Jumbled lines......Page 74
3.2 Dialogue rebuilding......Page 76
3.3 The ultimate gapfil......Page 79
3.4 Listen again......Page 81
3.5 Jumbled reconstruction......Page 82
3.6 Dialogue pairs......Page 84
3.7 Dialogue retranslation......Page 87
3.8 Retranslated tapescript......Page 88
3.9 Dubbing......Page 89
3.10 From monologue to dialogue......Page 90
3.11 Turning news items into dialogue......Page 92
3.12 Shadow dialogues......Page 93
3.13 Mimed dialogues......Page 95
3.14 Modernised voiceovers......Page 97
3.15 Roughing up and censoring......Page 100
4 Memorising......Page 102
4.1 Who said what?......Page 103
4.2 Reduced dialogues......Page 104
4.3 Story to dialogue......Page 106
4.4 Adjacency pair turnover cards......Page 108
4.5 Remembering the questions......Page 110
4.6 Dialogue halves......Page 112
4.7 Line by line......Page 114
4.8 Prompts......Page 115
5 Rehearsing and performing......Page 118
5.1 Chanted dialogue......Page 119
5.2 Sounding like a gringo!......Page 121
5.3 It’s not what you say . . .......Page 123
5.4 Students perform the listening material......Page 125
5.5 Improvising into a scene......Page 126
5.6 Shadowing actors......Page 128
5.7 Dialogues with movement......Page 129
5.8 Who’s next ?......Page 130
5.9 Conducted dialogue......Page 132
5.10 Performance to writing......Page 135
5.11 Readers’ theatre......Page 137
5.12 Direct speech......Page 139
5.13 No way José......Page 141
5.14 Let’s have a drink......Page 143
6 Co-constructing......Page 145
6.1 By name and by nature......Page 146
6.2 Half a conversation......Page 148
6.3 Dialogue building......Page 151
6.4 Community language learning......Page 154
6.5 Writing dialogue articles......Page 156
6.6 Famous last words......Page 158
6.7 Dialogue into song......Page 159
6.8 Conversational involvement......Page 162
7 Creating and personalising......Page 166
7.1 What did we have to say?......Page 167
7.2 The words I’d like to own......Page 168
7.3 Dice dialogues......Page 169
7.4 Speech bubbles......Page 170
7.5 Picture dialogues......Page 171
7.6 Dark secret scenes......Page 172
7.7 Soundtracks......Page 174
7.8 Conscience alley......Page 175
7.9 From depiction to dialogue......Page 177
7.10 Semi-planned roleplay......Page 178
7.11 The room talks back......Page 179
7.12 Into the future......Page 180
8 Communicating......Page 181
8.1 Venn diagrams......Page 182
8.2 Speed dating......Page 183
8.3 Gibberish scenes......Page 185
8.4 Dialogue warm-ups......Page 186
8.5 The status game......Page 187
8.6 Cline debates......Page 188
8.7 Gossip......Page 189
8.8 Paper talk......Page 191
8.9 Multi-speak dialogues......Page 192
8.10 ABC dialogues......Page 193
8.11 Odds versus evens......Page 195
8.13 Robinson Crusoe Island......Page 196
8.14 Who’s lying?......Page 198
8.15 Interclass calls......Page 200
8.16 Celebrity ball......Page 203
8.17 Boring short stories......Page 205
8.18 Read, turn and talk......Page 206
9 Dialogue as learning......Page 207
9.1 The closed question restaurant......Page 208
9.2 Building a life......Page 210
9.3 The dating agency......Page 211
9.4 Talk and chalk......Page 213
9.5 Never-ending dialogue......Page 215
9.6 Would you give your teacher a job?......Page 217
9.7 The tourists are coming......Page 219
9.8 Dialogic text building......Page 221
9.9 Cooperative storymaking......Page 223
9.10 Teacher in role......Page 224
9.11 Interrupting the tapescript......Page 227
9.12 Dialogue versus internet......Page 228
9.13 Difficult dialogue......Page 231
by David Lynch......Page 233
Authentic snippets......Page 237
Snippets from fairy tales......Page 241
25 Lame jokes......Page 243
Situational dialogues......Page 245
)......Page 248
Further reading and resources......Page 250
Index......Page 252