Understanding Emergent Language in Teaching

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Danny Norrington Davies and Richard Chinn have done extensive research on emergent language and have co-authored "Working with emergent language." Danny has over 25 years in the industry and is currently a CELTA and DELTA tutor. His first book "Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons" was a best-seller. Richard has trained teachers all over the world and currently does pre-service and in-service training courses at IH London. He is also an associate professor at King's College London. 

In this episode, Danny & Richard discuss:

• the rise of emergent language
• why many were resistant to the idea
• the imbalance between research on error correction versus emergent language use 
• incidents that prevent language from emerging 
• the connections between emergent language and task-based learning
• how teachers can develop their "emergent language muscle"
• why the student's agenda supersedes the teacher's 
• how teachers can utilize emergent language even with beginners
• why they decided to write a book on emergent language

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