Getting away from the textbooks: Materials for conversational english

Abstract

This study, which consists of five chapters, attempts to present communicative materials which create situations and give students opportunities to use the foreign language in conversational English out of a textbook. The study emphasized the importance of real-life communication and situation to be brought or created into the classroom. In the first chapter, the above-mentioned emphasise was presented. In the second chapter, the theories to teach communicative competence and its relation mthil|.nguistic competence and their places in teaching foreign/second language. In the third chapter, it was dealt with the language teaching aids, especially for conversational English. The forth chapter is concerned with the materials used out of a textbook. These materials were specially chosen in order to serve foreign language teachers as a handbook for their conversation-purposed lessons. The last chapter reviews the importance of creating real-life communication in class, and the shortcomings that might arouse in using the communicative materials.