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Group Talk

This article highlights the importance of teaching specific group talk skills to achieve progression in spontaneous conversations. It discusses conversational devices such as questioning and emphasizes the value of using question words, question tags, and formulating complete questions to gain clarification and drive the conversation forward. The article also suggests using increasingly complex scenarios and allowing thinking time to ensure progression.

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Group Talk

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  1. Group Talk Achieving progression in spontaneous talk

  2. Group Talk progression • Progression should happen as a matter of course as improved linguistic competence feeds into spontaneous talk. • Particular Group Talk skills need to be explicitily taught.

  3. Conversational devices

  4. Progression through questioning • Use of question words as timely interjections which gain clarification and explanation • The ‘WHY’ is as important as the ‘BECAUSE’ • Question tags • Determine a new direction by formulating complete questions • Show awareness of audience

  5. Ensuring progression • Use increasingly complex scenarios which demand higher level thinking skills • Allow thinking time (Zeit zum Nachdenken) • End result (hopefully!): An authentic balance of development and shorter interjections

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