I got offered free access to this course on Udemy. I’ve been meaning to do it for a while. Finally got around to it and… wow! It’s very impressive.
Course overview
Spoken Grammar is a teacher training course. It provides teachers with techniques and materials for teaching conversational grammar – typically to learners at intermediate level or above. There are about three hours of lectures on the course which highlight a wide range of spoken grammar, and give an insight into how these features could be taught in the classroom.
There are 6 sections on the course:
| Section 1 | Introduction. |
| Section 2 | Word order and ellipsis: heads and tails; declarative questions; ellipsis. |
| Section 3 | Emphasis: hyperbole; interjections; cleft structure and binominals. |
| Section 4 | Vague language: vague categories; vague placeholders; lexical bundles. |
| Section 5 | Marking spoken discourse: adverbials; discourse markers; using direct speech. |
| Section 6 | Response language: tokens and questions; so and do; synonymous language; dependent clauses. |
