A feature that is common both to language teaching and to traditional folk and fairy tales is the repetition of phrases or ‘language chunks’.

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For many people, standing up in public and doing a speech is one of their greatest fears. For many language students in particular, this is the ultimate challenge.

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This article is in three parts. The first part has already looked at what a speaker needs to be able to do to use spoken English as an effective form of communication.

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This article looks at what a speaker needs to be able to do in order to use spoken English as an effective form of communication.

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Non-verbal communication (body language, paralinguistics) has been a focus of attention for some time in areas such as the refinement of presentation skills, developing social skills, and even as a realistic alternative to the lie-detector test.

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We often give stories to our students to read, but how often do we tell them a story? This article looks at the benefits of storytelling and gives advice on performance skills

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