Open AccessReal People Don't Talk Like Book: Teaching Colloquial English
Author(s) -
Petrusiak Engkent
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
tesl canada journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-8917
pISSN - 0826-435X
DOI - 10.18806/tesl.v3i0.1007
Subject(s) - register (sociolinguistics) , presentation (obstetrics) , feature (linguistics) , linguistics , spoken language , psychology , computer science , medicine , philosophy , radiology
Register is an important feature of language use, but has often been neglected in language teaching. A systematic presentation of register differences and use would help students minimize register errors. The language of the streets must be brought into the classroom so that students can cope with everyday spoken English. In this paper, different characteristics of conversational English are discussed.
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