Teaching Oral Skills Communicatively | Page 11

recycling of information. Ur (1984:9) stresses that spoken discourse is accompanied by environmental clues, such as diagrams or pictures, and contains a number of redundant features. Defining redundancy she refers that: ‘we actually say a good deal more than would appear to be necessary in order to convey our message’. However, redundant features such as repetitions, false starts, rephrasings and self corrections are very useful as they provide the listener with additional information so that s