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Danny Norrington Davies and Richard Chinn have done extensive research on emergent language and have co-authored "Working with emergent language." Danny has over 25 years in the industry and is currently a CELTA and DELTA tutor. His first book "Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons" was a best-seller. Richard has trained teachers all over the world and currently does pre-service and in-service training courses at IH London. He is also an associate professor at King's College London.

In this episode, Danny & Richard discuss:

the rise of emergent language
why many were resistant to the idea
the imbalance between research on error correction versus emergent language use
incidents that prevent language from emerging
the connections between emergent language and task-based learning
how teachers can develop their "emergent language muscle"
why the student's agenda supersedes the teacher's
how teachers can utilize emergent language even with beginners
why they decided to write a book on emergent language

Brendan Kennelly