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The Teaching of Speaking

The document discusses strategies for teaching speaking skills. It recommends using a balanced approach combining language input, structured output, and communicative output. For language input, it suggests using teacher talk, listening activities, readings, and outside language. Structured output focuses on correct form through exercises. Communicative output involves completing tasks to convey messages and have conversations with an information gap. Some strategies discussed are using minimal responses, recognizing scripts, and talking about language to develop speaking skills. The document provides examples of structured and communicative output activities like information gap activities, jigsaw activities, role plays, and discussions. It emphasizes preparing students and creating a supportive environment for these activities.

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The Teaching of Speaking

The document discusses strategies for teaching speaking skills. It recommends using a balanced approach combining language input, structured output, and communicative output. For language input, it suggests using teacher talk, listening activities, readings, and outside language. Structured output focuses on correct form through exercises. Communicative output involves completing tasks to convey messages and have conversations with an information gap. Some strategies discussed are using minimal responses, recognizing scripts, and talking about language to develop speaking skills. The document provides examples of structured and communicative output activities like information gap activities, jigsaw activities, role plays, and discussions. It emphasizes preparing students and creating a supportive environment for these activities.

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Strategies and Methodology

In
Teaching Speaking

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Introduction

• Capable of speech
• the capability of a person that involves talking or giving speechesr
< a speaking role >
• Highly significant or expressive.

- To voice one’s opinions freely with force. to speak one’s mind


Introduction

• Fluency as the ability to converse with others.

• Many language learners regard speaking ability as the measure of


knowing a language. They regard speaking as the most important
skill they can acquire, and they assess their progress in terms of
their accomplishments in the spoken communication.
Introduction
Speaking involves three areas of knowledge:

Using the right order with the correct pronunciation (Mechanics)

Knowing when clarity of message is essential and when precise


understanding is not required (Functions)

Understanding how to take into account who is speaking to whom, in


what circumstances, about what, and for what reason. (Social and
cultural rules and norms)
Introduction
How can instructors help:

Providing authentic practice that prepares students for


real-life communication situations with
grammatically correct, logically connected sentences
that are appropriate to specific contexts, and with
comprehensible pronunciation.
Goals and Techniques for
Teaching Speaking
Goal – communicative efficiency
Instructors can use a balanced activities approach that
combines

• Language input
• structured output
• communicative output
LANGUAGE INPUT

• Language input – teacher talk, listening activities,


reading passages, and the language heard and
read outside of class.

• Language input give learners the material they need


to begin producing language themselves.

• Content-oriented input and Form-oriented input


STRUCTURED OUTPUT
• Structured output focuses on correct form.

• Instructors often use structured output exercises as a


transition between the presentation stage and the practice
stage of a lesson plan. Textbook exercises also often make
good structured output practice activities.
COMMUNICATIVE OUTPUT
• Communicative output – to complete a task, such
as obtaining information, developing a travel plan,
or creating a video.

• The learner gets the message across.

• Information gap
Strategies for Developing
Speaking Skills
1. Using minimal responses
Minimal responses are predictable, often idiomatic phrases that
conversation participants use to indicate understanding, agreement, doubt,
and other responses to what another speaker is saying.

Agreeing with what was said: absolutely; yes, that's right


Indicating possible doubt: really? are you sure?
Agreeing to cooperate or not: of course; okay; sorry, I can't; I'm afraid
not
Expressing an opinion: that's nice; how lucky! that's too bad
Expressing interest, encouraging the speaker to continue: what
happened next?; that's really interesting; what did you do?
Strategies for Developing
Speaking Skills
2. Recognizing scripts
Instructors can help students develop speaking ability by making
them aware of the scripts (such as greetings, apologies, compliments,
invitations.) for different situations.

Scripted transactional exchange:


A: May I help you?
B: I'd like to buy two movie tickets, please.
A: Which film?
B: Nightmare Monsters.
Scripted interactional exchange:
A: Hey! How have you been? I haven't seen you in a long time.
B: Yeah, I had the flu, so I was out for a while.
Strategies for Developing
Speaking Skills
3. Using language to talk about language
By encouraging students to use clarification phrases in class when
misunderstanding occurs and by responding positively when they do,
instructors can create an authentic practice environment within the
classroom itself.

When unsure of the speaker's meaning, repeat what you think the
speaker said in a question:
Excuse me, did you say that the sun rises in the west?
When you have missed most of the meaning:
Could you say that again, please?
When you don't know the word for something, describe it and ask its
name:
What do you call the stuff that falls out of the sky, that is rain but frozen?
Developing Speaking Activities
• The purpose of real communication is to accomplish a
task, such as conveying a telephone message.

• Authentic communication involves an information gap;


each participant has information that the other does not
have. In addition, to achieve their purpose, participants
may have to clarify their meaning or ask for
confirmation of their own understanding.
Developing Speaking Activities
• Instructors need to combine structured
output activities, which allow for error
correction and increased accuracy, with
communicative output activities that give
students opportunities to practice language
use more freely.
Structured Output Activities
Information Gap Activities

Filling the gaps in a schedule or timetable: Partner A holds an


airline timetable with some of the arrival and departure
times missing. Partner B has the same timetable but with
different blank spaces. The two partners are not permitted to
see each other's timetables and must fill in the blanks by asking
each other appropriate questions. The features of language that
are practiced would include questions beginning with "when" or
"at what time." Answers would be limited mostly to time
expressions like "at 8:15" or "at ten in the evening."
Structured Output Activities
Jigsaw Activities

• Each partner has one or a few pieces of the “puzzle”,


and the partners must cooperate to fit all the pieces
into a whole picture

• No two partners hear or read exactly the same text or


conversation.
Communicative Output Activities
• This activities allow students to practice using all of
the language they know in situation that resemble
real settings.

• Students must work together to develop a plan,


resolve a problem, or complete a task.

• The most common types of communicative output


activity are role plays and discussion.
To succeed with role plays
• Prepare carefully
• Set a goal or outcome
• Use role cards
• Brainstorm
• Keep groups small
• Give students time to prepare
• Be present as a resource, not a monitor
• Allow students to work at their own levels
• Do topical follow-up
• Do linguistic follow-up
To succeed with discussions
• Prepare the students

• Offer choices

• Set a goal or outcome

• Keep it short

• Allow students to participate in their own way

• Do topical follow-up

• Do linguistic follow-up
To succeed with role plays &
discussions
Through well-prepared communicative output activity
such as role plays and discussions, you can encourage
students to experiment and innovate with the language,
and create a supportive atmosphere that allows them to
make mistakes without fear of embarrassment. This will
contribute to their self-confidence as speakers and to
their motivation to learn more.
Other strategies & their frequency…

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