Julia M. Dobson

The conversation class has long been the stepchild in programs ofEnglish for non-native speakers. Students invariably request such anactivity, and so a class is hastily and haphazardly scheduled andassigned to the most willing member of the staff who, more oftenthan not, is also the least...

FOREWORDThe conversation class has long been the stepchild in programs of English for non-native speakers. Students invariably request such an activity, and so a class is hastily and haphazardly scheduled and assigned to the most willing member of the staff who, more often than not, is also the...

PrefaceConversation in English: Points of Departure, Second Edition, is designed for conversation and composition on the high elementary, intermediate, or advanced level. The difference among levels will lie in the degree of linguistic sophistication of the students' responses.There are fifty-one...