The acquisition of conversational English depends on the materials available to learners. This book explores the grammar and lexis of everyday informal discourse and analyzes twenty ESL textbooks to determine how well they prepare learners for real conversation.
María Dolores Fernández Gavela
María Dolores Fernández Gavela was brought up in Sydney, Australia, and received her degree in English Studies from the University of Oviedo, Spain. She has been teaching English at the state-run Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas in the Principality of Asturias for over twenty years. In the 1990s, she participated in, and co-organized, teacher trainer courses at the University of Oviedo, where she also received her International Doctorate, completed during the academic year 2011–2012 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr Fernández Gavela has also participated in and organized a number of projects funded by the European Union, involving institutions from Latvia, the UK, France, Poland and Germany.
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