This paper discusses the potential use of sociolinguistically rich pedagogical dialogues, ., textbook dialogues replayed by real speakers of English. Due to the increasing recognition for English language varieties, exposing learners to naturalistic language and language variations in real life can contribute to the effective use of textbook dialogues in communication conversation classes. | 64 Nguyen Ngoc Nhat Minh THE USE OF SOCIOLINGUISTICALLY RICH PEDAGOGICAL DIALOGUES IN TEACHING CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH Nguyen Ngoc Nhat Minh University of Foreign Language Studies - The University of Danang; nhatminh8989@ Abstract - This paper discusses the potential use of sociolinguistically rich pedagogical dialogues, ., textbook dialogues replayed by real speakers of English. Due to the increasing recognition for English language varieties, exposing learners to naturalistic language and language variations in real life can contribute to the effective use of textbook dialogues in communication/conversation classes. To create such dialogues, teachers can guide learners to record people performing textbook dialogues and then compare the language used in the recordings to that introduced in the textbook. When being recorded, the interlocutors rely on the given prompts, which show the speech acts of the sample dialogue, to reproduce the conversation in their own language. This technique was trialed by the researcher and the results are discussed in this paper to examine how the speakers’ identities influence their language use and how this might benefit learner language repertoire, from which conclusions are drawn regarding the use of sociolinguistically rich pedagogical dialogues. The analysis of the replayed dialogues reveals that language use is affected by the speaker’ identities including gender, age, etc., and that some language elements which do not appear in textbook dialogues, such as hedging or some spoken expressions, are actually useful for learner language repertoire. Key words - sociologically rich dialogue; naturalistic language; language variations; identity; language repertoire 1. Introduction Due to the increasing importance of intercultural communication, language variations are more and more welcomed in addition to the so-called standard English. The language that speakers use reflects their identities and what role they decide to .
