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Publication details [#31239]

Henry, Alex. 1996. Natural chunks of language: Teaching speech through speech. English for Specific Purposes 15 (4) : 295–309.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language for special purposes | language teaching | natural language | world knowledge

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0889-4906 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper presents a teaching approach for oral English for Specific Purposes, that uses chunks of natural language which can be segmented into fixed and variable units and which makes the learners aware of the paradigmatic, syntagmatic and phonological aspects of the language being taught.