Criteria for Naturalness of Conversations in English Textbooks

This study investigates what features of naturalness of a conversation in an EFL textbook are. After a thorough review of related literature, a model of naturalness was adopted on the basis of the features of spoken language. There are six main features of spoken language in the model: contextualizability, communicativeness, appropriateness, unfolding, text potential, and features of authentic speech. This study highlights the importance of including natural language in conversations of EFL textbooks and makes some pedagogical suggestions about how this can be done.

Keywords:

naturalness , conversation , features , EFL textbooks