Campus Talk: Effective Communication Beyond the Classroom

The Campus Talk set provides students with skills and strategies for effective social communication in academic and non-academic environments, focusing on interactional language development and corpus data. It covers various topics such as sharing stories, handling complaints and apologies, building rapport, managing interactions, and understanding humor. The workbooks are designed for upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English (CEFR B1-C2) to promote interactional language awareness and develop active listening skills.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2021
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Campus Talk is a comprehensive two-volume set of textbooks designed to enhance students' social communication skills in both academic and non-academic environments on campus. It adopts an interactional approach to language development, exposing students to the most salient and widely used vocabulary and grammar, illustrating effective conversation maintenance and communication strategies, and highlighting the socio-cultural aspects of communication. The textbooks are divided into four instructional units, each covering a range of situations and conversations that students will encounter in their daily lives on campus. Units 5-8, for example, focus on sharing stories, delivering and engaging in conversations, making and responding to complaints and apologies, building rapport and managing interactions with an audience, keeping your audience focused, making and responding to invitations, and understanding and responding to humor. Each unit includes a variety of enabling, input-based, and interactional tasks and activities, a usage-informed vocabulary list, a main production task, and self-assessment. With its challenging tasks and activities and ample opportunities for practice and self-reflection, Campus Talk helps students build confidence and enhance their abilities to express themselves clearly, appropriately, and effectively. The textbooks are targeted at upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English (CEFR B1-C2) to promote interactional language awareness and develop active listening skills.

Dimension: 246 x 189 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474419406