What is circumlocution? Can it be taught? Should you teach it? When? If novices shouldn’t be required to produce language, should we teach them circumlocution as a tool to solve communication problems? All of these questions are addressed in this second episode of the Musicuentos Black Box Podcast. I had a real light-bulb moment working with this article, and I can’t wait to tell you about it.
As the second episode of the month, this is a paid download. You can listen to this podcast at your leisure for half the cost of a tall mocha.
Transcripts for paid podcasts are released one month after the audio, and the audio file becomes a free download six months after release.
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[…] another note, I bought the second Black Box Podcast from Musicuentos and I was definitely not disappointed! One of the things I came away with that was immediately […]