{"id":1984,"date":"2021-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2021-09-09T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T10:07:18","slug":"comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/teaching-conversation\/comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Students Learn the Art of Conversation \u2013 Not Interrogation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you ever had a lesson that made you feel like you were being interrogated?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OK, that\u2019s an exaggeration, but you\u2019ve probably experienced something like this before:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Your student asks you a question.&nbsp;<\/li><li>You respond.<\/li><li>Immediately, your student asks another question.&nbsp;<\/li><li>You respond, and once again, your student launches into another question.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On the plus side, the student is taking initiative and trying to lead the conversation instead of <a href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/28\/turn-your-students-into-conversationalists-with-these-simple-questions\/\">leaving all that to us<\/a>, and that\u2019s great! We applaud them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But on the downside, asking a rapid-fire succession of questions isn\u2019t really a conversation. It\u2019s more of an interview at best and a police interrogation at worst.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So today, today we\u2019ll talk about why some students do this and share a simple trick we can teach them to make their conversations more, well... conversational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Problem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s happening is that the student probably learned somewhere that they need to ask questions to make conversation. Even though this is good advice, it leads to situations like this when misapplied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I would prepare lists of questions to bring to business lunches with foreign clients. Then I would go through the questions in the lists one-by-one. But then at some point I\u2019d run out of questions. And even before that happened, I could tell the conversation was awkward, but I wasn\u2019t sure why.<\/p><cite>One of our students from Japan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If we were to make a visual diagram of conversations like this, they\u2019d probably look something like this:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21024336\/QAQAQA.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1988\" width=\"480\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21024336\/QAQAQA.png 960w, https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21024336\/QAQAQA-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21024336\/QAQAQA-768x528.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you thought the diagram looked a little too angular, you\u2019re right. While conversations need a mix of questions and answers, good conversations don\u2019t simply zigzag between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help your student \u201cround out\u201d their conversations, you can introduce them to a conversational strategy which we\u2019ll simply call \u201ccomments.\u201d After someone responds to a question, people generally comment on the response.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21034652\/arisa-zach-1024x735.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1991\" width=\"512\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21034652\/arisa-zach-1024x735.png 1024w, https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21034652\/arisa-zach-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21034652\/arisa-zach-768x551.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Arisa comments \u201cWow, that\u2019s a long time!\u201d before asking her next question.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Comments are used even in the simplest dialogues, like when asking someone for their name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21034704\/Nicole-Ling-1024x673.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1992\" width=\"512\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21034704\/Nicole-Ling-1024x673.png 1024w, https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21034704\/Nicole-Ling-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21034704\/Nicole-Ling-768x505.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ve probably also heard comments like this before:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21034723\/Jim-David-1-1024x672.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1994\" width=\"512\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21034723\/Jim-David-1-1024x672.png 1024w, https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21034723\/Jim-David-1-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21034723\/Jim-David-1-768x504.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Short comments like these can help our students make their conversations more natural and pleasant, and sometimes even lead to mini-conversations of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once your students get used to making comments, their conversations should look more like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21025151\/Q..A.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1990\" width=\"479\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21025151\/Q..A.png 958w, https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21025151\/Q..A-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/assets.blog.engoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/07\/21025151\/Q..A-768x519.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of a steady flow of questions which may be exhausting to answer, questions are spaced out and rounded out with comments on the responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udc4b That\u2019s it for now!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So next time you encounter a student who asks questions machine gun-style, you can introduce them to the concept of comments and maybe point out some parts of the conversation where they could have made some.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also encourage them to watch some English movies or TV shows and see how other people make conversation. For example, how often do they make comments? What phrases do they use to do this? To get them started, here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uRfrKg_oslE\">a Youtube video<\/a> that even beginners could watch and learn from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your students are interested in making their conversations more natural or pleasant, you can also introduce them to these <a href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/09\/expressions-of-empathy\/\">expressions of empathy<\/a> as well as other techniques, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/14\/backchanneling\/\">backchanneling<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, you may want to remind such students to give their conversation partner a chance to ask questions themselves! Happy tutoring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever had a lesson that made you feel like you were being interrogated? 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