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Willems, Gerard M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1994
Proposes a variety of conversational training that maximizes learner autonomy and focuses on sociocultural competence in speaking. Students recorded role-plays that required good sociolinguistic knowledge and then compared the discourse generated with native speaker equivalents. The future of conversational training at third level is discussed in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis