Hilary Plass "Sspeaking naturally"

SPEAKING NATURALLY
Hilary Plass
TESOL-SPAIN

CONTEXT

Do you know where today’s paper is?

1. Participants: colleague to colleague
Setting: staff room

2. Participants: master and servant
Setting: breakfast table

3. Participants: husband and wife
Setting: living room

Who’s talking?

A: Do you know where today’s paper is?
B: I’ll get it for you
A: That’s OK. Just tell me where it is. I’ll get it
B: No, I’LL get it

Address forms
Susan
Susie
Mrs Wakefield
Miss
Madam
Mummy
Susie WusiePusie

Pre-sequences:
(invitation, request, (news) announcement, closing)

1. You doing anything on Saturday?

You haven’t got the DVD of “The Great
Gatsby” by any chance have you?

3. Guess what?

4. I – I – I’ve got something awful to tell you

5. Well it’s been great to see you, you know

Silence
A: Is there something bothering you or not?
(1.0)
A: Yes or no?
(1.5)
A: Well?
B: No

Side sequences
A: Are you coming tonight?
B: Can I bring a friend?
A: Male or female?
B: What difference does it make?
A: An issue of balance
B: Female
A: Sure
B: I’ll be there

Piggy-backing & latched utterances

A: we could go and see “The Prophet” that’s a good one
B: yeah that’s a good one yeah

A: and we have a teaspoon of=
B: =paprika
A: ground ginger

Turn taking:
No gap no overlap
Keeping the floor
Relinquishing the floor
Nominating next speaker
Self nomination
Interruptions & overlaps
Signalling turn endings

Listening responses
Mmhmm
Mmm
Yeah, right
Sure
Really?
No::?
Wha::t?
Repetition

2. Illustrative Scales
2.1 Communicative Activities

Overall Spoken Interaction

Understanding a Native Speaker Interlocutor
Conversation
Informal Discussion
Formal Discussion (Meetings)
Goal-oriented Co-operation
Obtaining Goods and Services
Information Exchange
Interviewing & Being Interviewed

2.1 Communicative Activities

Overall Spoken Production

Sustained Monologue: Describing Experience
Sustained Monologue: Putting a Case (e.g. Debate)
Public Announcements
Addressing Audiences

2.2 Communication Strategies

Reception

Identifying Cues and Inferring

Interaction

Taking the Floor (Turntaking)
Co-operating
Asking for Clarification
Production
Planning
Compensating
Monitoring and Repair

2.4 Communicative Language Competence
Linguistic Range

General Range
Vocabulary Range

Control

Grammatical Accuracy
Vocabulary Control
Phonological Control

2.4 Communicative Language Competence

Sociolinguistic
Sociolinguistic

Pragmatic
Flexibility
Taking the Floor (Turntaking)
Thematic Development
Coherence
Propositional Precision
Spoken Fluency
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NS / NNS: Agreeing on what film to see
NS yes / NNS no
Summarising, getting back tothepoint, upgradingassessments
Suggesting
Appeal to 3rd party
Overlaps
Repetition
Hedges
Questiontags
Pre and sidesequences

NS / NNS: Agreeing on what film to see
NS yes / NNS yes
Fewlongturns
Listening responses
Piggybacking
Linguistically simple (exceptvocabulary)
Expressingpreferences
Question – answer
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Hilary Plass "Sspeaking naturally"

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