Speaking involves using both verbal and non-verbal communication to build meaning in various contexts. Teachers should create a classroom environment where students can have real-life communication through meaningful tasks and authentic activities that promote oral language. This is best achieved through collaborative learning and communicative language teaching approaches. While accuracy is important, teachers should focus on fluency when designing speaking techniques and provide opportunities, feedback and motivation to help students improve.
WHAT IS SPEAKING?
Speaking is "the process of building and sharing
meaning through the use of verbal and non-verbal
symbols, in a variety of contexts."
(Chaney, 1998, p. 13)
3.
HOW TO TEACHSPEAKING
Now many linguistics and ESL teachers agree on that
students learn to speak in the second language by
"interacting". Communicative language teaching and
collaborative. learning serve best for this
aim. Communicative language teaching is based on real-life
situations that require communication. By using this method
in ESL classes, students will have the opportunity of
communicating with each other in the target language. In
brief, ESL teachers should create a classroom environment
where students have real-life communication, authentic
activities, and meaningful tasks that promote oral language.
This can occur when students collaborate in groups to
achieve a goal or to complete a task
4.
TO TEACH SPEAKINGIS
TO TEACH LEARNERS TO:
Produce the English
speech sounds and
sound patterns
Use word and
sentence stress,
intonation patterns
and the rhythm of the
second language.
Select appropriate
words and sentences
according to the
proper social setting,
audience, situation
and subject matter.
Organize their
thoughts in a
meaningful and
logical sequence.
Use language as a
means of expressing
values and judgments.
Use the language
quickly and
confidently with few
unnatural pauses,
which is called as
fluency. (Nunan, 2003)
5.
TYPES OF CLASSROOM
PERFORMANCE
IMITATIVE
Imitation is carried out not for the purpose of
meaningful interaction, but for focusing on some
particular element of language form.
e.g., learners practicing an intonation pattern a
certain vowel sound
Drills offer students an opportunity to listen and to orally
repeat certain strings of languages that may pose some
linguistic difficulty.
6.
INTENSIVE
Intensive speakinggoes one step beyond imitative to
include any speaking performance that is designed to
practice some phonological or grammatical aspect of
language. Intensive speaking can be self-initiated, or it
can even form part of some pair work activity, where
learners are “going over” certain forms of language.
7.
Interpersonal(dialogue)
It carriedout more for the purpose of maintaining
social relationships than for the transmission of facts
and information.
Extensive(monologue)
Students at intermediate to advanced levels are
called on to five extended monologues in the
form of oral reports, summaries, or perhaps short
speeches, Here the register is more formal and
deliberative. These monologues can be planned
or impromptu.
8.
RESPONSIVE
A gooddeal of students speech in the classroom is
responsive: short replies to teacher- or student-initiated
questions or comments.
TRANSACTIONAL(DIALOGUE)
Transactional language, carried out for the
purpose of conveying or exchanging specific
information, is and extended form of
responsive language.
9.
PRINCIPLES FOR DESIGNING
SPEAKING TECHNIQUES
Focus on both fluency & accuracy depending on your
objective
Provide intrinsically motivating techniques
Encourage the use of authentic language in
meaningful contexts
Provide appropriate feedback and correction
Capitalize on the natural link between speaking and
listening
Give students opportunities to initiate oral
communication
Encourage the development of speaking strategies
10.
Asking for clarification(what?)
Asking someone to repeat something (pardon
me?)
Using fillers (uh, I mean) to get time to
process
Using conversation maintenance cues (uh-huh,
SPEAKING STRATEGIES
right, yeah, OK, Hmm)
Getting someone’s attention (hey, say, so)
Paraphrasing for structures one can’t produce
Appealing for assistance from the interlocutor
Using formulaic expressions
Using mime and non-verbal expressions
DISCUSSIONS
After acontent-based lesson, a discussion can be held for various reasons.
The students may aim to arrive at a conclusion, share ideas about an event,
or find solutions in their discussion groups. Before the discussion, it is
essential that the purpose of the discussion activity is set by the teacher.
ROLE PLAY
The teacher gives information to the learners such as who they are and what
they think or feel. Thus, the teacher can tell the student that "You are David,
you go to the doctor and tell him what happened last night, and…" (Harmer,
1984)
Ask students to practise situational dialogues by doing role plays, such as in
the medical clinic, at the station, at the post office, in the restaurant and in
the shop
13.
SIMULATIONS
Simulations arevery similar to role-plays but what makes
simulations different than role plays is that they are more
elaborate. In simulations, students can bring items to the class to
create a realistic environment. For instance, if a student is acting as
a president, he/she wears a suit and brings a microphone to
deliver his speech. Role plays and simulations have many
advantages.
Such activities motivate the students and increase the self-confidence
of hesitant students
14.
SPEECHES
Teachers canask their students to prepare a speech about
one of the topics that were discussed in class.
They may also ask them to prepare a speech about a special
event or occasion. In fact, lots of students enjoy such
activities as they allow them a great deal of freedom to
express their ideas and show their talents.
Of course, delivering the speech should be done in class.
Retelling
Ask students to retell a story they have read, listened and watched.
15.
OTHER TECHNIC FORTEACHING
SPEAKING
Question and answer
Improvisation
Debates
Group project
Feel trip
Problem solving
Watching and speaking
Short plays
Talking according to the
picture
Free talk
Reporting
Describing picture
Interview
Brainstorming
Information gap
Games
16.
CONCLUSION
students actuallyhave a strong desire to speak.
They are reluctant to speak because they are
afraid of making mistakes and failing to find
suitable words to express themselves well. If the
teach try to encourage them to speak by using as
many ways as possible and creating a good
language speaking environment, students will
speak actively, willingly and naturally. Speaking as
one of the four skills, can be mastered only
through practice. Practice makes perfect