Tony Lynch looks at how learners interact in the classroom, and offers guidance to teachers on how to make lessons more effective by giving learners better opportunities for interaction and communication. Using illustrative transcripts, he offers insights from research into the nature of real-life interaction, and practical guidance on designing communicative tasks in all four skills.
Part One: Input, interaction, and negotiation
1. Communicating inside and outside the classroom
2. Simplicity and accessibility
3. Teacher Talk
4. Modification research: findings and implications
Part Two: Classroom applications - interaction-based teaching
5. Teaching listening
6. Teaching speaking
7. Teaching reading
8. Teaching writing
9. Postscript