Episode 34: Chris Jones
Chris Jones joins us to talk conversation, strategies, and speaking.
Chris Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has been involved in English language teaching for over twenty five years and holds the Cambridge CTEFLA and DTEFLA qualifications alongside an MA and PhD from the University of Nottingham. Chris' main research interests are related to spoken language.
He joins us to talk about that and his new book called "Conversation Strategies and Communicative Competence."
Specifically, he tackles:
his early influences, including Ron Carter, Scott Thornbury, and Dave Willis
his impetus for his new book "Conversation Strategies and Communicative Competence"
his writing process
the difference between speaking and conversation
the difference between conversation strategies and communication strategies
reasons why conversation strategies are often neglected in teaching
how teachers can help their students with improving their spoken communication
Follow Chris on Twitter: @ELTResearch
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About Chris Jones
Christian Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has been involved in English language teaching for over twenty five years and has worked in China, Japan, Thailand and the UK. During this time, he taught general English, business English, exam classes, classes for young learners and undertook materials/course development and teacher training. He holds the Cambridge CTEFLA and DTEFLA qualifications alongside an MA and PhD from the University of Nottingham.
His main research interests are related to spoken language and he has produced work on spoken corpora, lexis and lexico-grammar, classroom applications of corpus data and instructed second language acquisition. Recent publications include Jones, C., Byrne, S., & Halenko, N. (2018). Successful spoken English: Findings from learner corpora (Routledge); Literature, spoken language and speaking skills in second language learning (2019) and Practice in second language learning (2018) ( both as editor, Cambridge University Press).
For More on Chris Jones:
Twitter: @ELTResearch
His talk to launch his new book
Details on his new book "Conversation strategies and communicative competence"
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