Conversation Skills and Techniques 1

This course enables beginner-level students to engage in conversation with confidence. Students begin learning to use rejoinders, questions, and comments to show interest and understanding as they practice starting, extending, and ending casual conversations in controlled exchanges. They then learn and apply strategic communication skills, such as echoing information to check for understanding, asking clarification questions that target specific information, and responding with details to keep a conversation going. Finally, students apply their skills more spontaneously by engaging in simple, structured discussions on high-interest topics. By learning set expressions through targeted practice and applying them in less and less controlled formats, students develop skills to sustain conversations and more flexibly and naturally respond to conversational shifts.