Campus Talk, Volume 1

A research-based workbook for upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English (CEFR B1-C2) to promote interactional language awareness and develop active listening skills This two-volume Campus Talk set delivers a wide range of skills and strategies which students can actively apply in everyday social communication in both academic and non-academic environments on campus. It encourages an ‘interactional‘ rather than a ‘speaker focused‘ language development approach. Drawing on corpus data, it exposes students to the most salient and widely used vocabulary and grammar, illustrates the most effective conversation maintenance and communication strategies and draws attention to the socio-cultural aspects of communication. Campus Talk comprises two textbooks. Each textbook contains four instructional units and each unit is based on situations and conservations that students will come across in their everyday lives on campus. In this book of the series, Units 1-4 cover areas such as striking up a conversation, sharing and responding to news, making small talk, managing group communication, expressing and reacting to opinions, expressing, responding and talking about feelings and making and responding to requests. Each unit includes: . Enabling, input-based and interactional tasks and activities . Usage-informed vocabulary list . Main production task . Self-assessment With a variety of challenging tasks and activities and plenty of opportunities to practice and engage in self-reflection and self-assessment, students using these books will grow their confidence and enhance their abilities to express themselves clearly, appropriately and effectively. Silvana Dushku is Director of the Community Language Program and TESOL Certificate Program at Teachers College, Columbia University Paul Thompson is Deputy Director of the Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham