{"product_id":"pragmatics-noel-r-houck-9781931185707","title":"Pragmatics: Teaching Natural Conversation:","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers teachers in the ESL\/EFL classroom some of the first published materials for guiding learners past grammar into authentic-sounding (conventional) utterances and sequences, replacing the scripted unnatural or stilted dialogue provided in textbooks. Teachers will find a range of pedagogical activities to put to immediate use in the classroom, as students learn turn-taking, initiations and responses for formal academic and informal conversation, thanking expressions, apologies, compliments and compliment responses, differences in complimenting behavior between men and women, opening and closing telephone conversations, and use of responders such as \"oh,\" \"uh-huh\/mm-hm,\" and \"yeah.\" Pragmatics: Teaching Natural Conversation, taken together with the previous volume, Pragmatics: Teaching Speech Acts, provides teachers with a comprehensive basis for the theoretically sound and pedagogically effective teaching of this important, but often neglected, area of language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e**This title also includes a companion website with online resources.**\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donna H. Tatsuki, Noel R. Houck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1931185700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781931185707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tesol Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Donna H. Tatsuki","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988493402367,"sku":"9781931185707","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a86b005f-0f31-474f-989a-4de401f2737d.jpg?v=1683294786","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pragmatics-noel-r-houck-9781931185707","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}