0 conversation that is written for a book, play, or film: --
1 conversation between the characters in a story, such as in a book or movie: --
2 a serious exchange of opinion, esp. among people or groups that disagree: --
First, that the conversational competence required for practical dialogues, while still complex, is significantly simpler to achieve than general human conversational competence.
Such dialogues are essentially hybrid: they involve both synchronous interaction typical of face-toface conversations and asynchronous interaction as found in written or email communication.
While students deployed all four language skills, their dialogues retained a number of grammatical and lexical uncertainties.
A qualitative method with a focus on dialogues in the classroom was used in the inquiry process.
The author highlights nine discourse features in seven featured dialogues published in coursebooks between 1981 and 1997.
Language teaching materials tend to concentrate on monologues or dialogues where turn-taking is structured and predictable, with some kind of transactional goal.
The book is unusually varied, comprising poems, dialogues, personal reminiscences, chapters interlarded with proverbs, quotes from the honoree's works, and conventional papers.
From this corpus 100 dialogues from ten different subjects have been studied.
