Advanced speaking skills
5 posts
Many non-native speakers don’t know when it is and isn’t polite to interject and jump in to ask for clarification, offer their opinion or express enthusiasm, which tends to lead to feelings of discomfort and even insecurity. This series is focused on the types of settings and covers everything you […]
Why you should care about becoming more aware of how meaning is shaped in interaction Vocabulary and grammar most important? Most clients and course participants of language & communication courses are mainly focused on using the right words (i.e. in terms of semantic meaning and meaning you can find in dictionaries) and verb tenses when communicating in English - completely valid and understandable. Language use, however, is more complex and extends to higher levels. Continune reading.
At an advanced level of English, language is used in a more complicated way, which may seem rather obvious but can be somewhat difficult to attribute that fact to something specific. so 'more complicated language use may not say anything to you. Please note that I have communicated earlier that learners of English tend to have difficulty with listening and reading for detailed information as opposed to gist (i .e. general idea), which is relevant if you want to understand how meaning is given to turns in interaction and how it is inferred by speakers in conversation. In this post, I attempt to explain how meaning is inferred and presupposed by interlocutors, using a short interaction taken from a popular North American TV series on Netflix.
