Chris Jones joins us to talk conversation, strategies, and speaking.  Chris Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has been involved in English language teaching for over twenty five years and holds the Cambridge CTEFLA and DTEFLA qualifications alongside an MA and PhD from the University of Nottingham. Chris' main research interests are related to spoken language. He joins us to talk about that and his new book called "Conversation Strategies and Communicative Competence." Specifically in this episode, he tackles: his early influences, including Ron Carter, Scott Thornbury, and Dave Willis his impetus for his new book "Conversation Strategies and Communicative Competence"  his writing process the difference between speaking and conversation the difference between conversation strategies and communication strategies reasons why conversation strategies are often neglected in teaching how teachers can help their students with improving their spoken communication More on Chris Jones: Twitter: @ELTResearch His talk to launch his new book Details on his new book "Conversation strategies and communicative competence"  His University of Liverpool staff page  For more information on this episode, see our blog post about it.  Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Join Our Mailing List Join Our Teacher Development Membership Join our Self-directed Learning Portal See Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time