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and interpret non-verbal gestures that are charac- teristic of speakers in various target-language communities; identify speech conventions used in a target-language interview and compare them with interviewing conventions in their own first language; after listening to a target-language poem or short story, identify idiomatic expressions, colloquialisms, and proverbs; infer the relationship of speakers from their language register; analyse how the non-verbal interactions of characters in a target- language film clarify their spoken messages)
Teacher prompts: “What features of the speaker’s pronunciation helped you identify the region where he or she learned the target language? Were they strong or slight? What does that tell you?” “What do the non-verbal interactions of the movie characters tell you that their speech does not? How do their non-verbal cues support their spoken messages? How do they contradict them?”
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