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Publication details [#27057]

McCarthy, Michael and Ronald Carter. 1995. Grammar and the spoken language. Applied Linguistics 16 (2) : 141–158.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversation | language teaching | pedagogy | spoken language

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study argues that language teaching which intends to foster conversational skills should be based on the grammar of conversation instead of on pedagogical grammars that mainly reflect written language norms.