speaking English 10

Why should we teach speaking skills in the classroom?. Why should we teach speaking skills in the classroom..  Speaking is fundamental to human communication – In our daily life, we sp

TEACHING SPEAKING

Why should we teach speaking

skills in the classroom?

1 Learning the language = learning how to

speak the language

“Success is measured in terms of the ability to

carry out a conversation in the (target)

language." (Nunan, 1991)

⇒No opportunities to speak=> Ss get

de-motivated and lose interest in learning

2 Speaking in class can be a lot of fun

Why should we teach speaking

skills in the classroom?

 Speaking is fundamental to human

communication

– In our daily life, we speak more than we

write – Goal of an English course is truly to

enable students to communicate in English

TEACHING SPEAKING

COMMON ARGUMENTS

COMMON ARGUMENTS AGAINST

TEACHING SPEAKING IN

CLASSROOM

just end up chatting in L1

too noisy and out of hand and I lose control

of the classroom

DEALING WITH COMMON ARGUMENTS AGAINST TEACHING

SPEAKING

Students won't talk or say

anything

teaching and encourage students to ask questions or for

things in English

assessment)

interest and create a real need for communication

When students work in pairs or groups they just end up chatting

 Is the timing good?

 Is another way to discourage students speaking in

their L1 to walk around the classroom monitoring

their participation and giving support and help to

students as they need it?

When all the students speak together it gets too noisy and out of hand and I lose

control of the classroom

interacting in English, even if it is noisy is

exactly what you want

around and monitoring the students or

change the pace of the class and type of

activity to a more controlled task

TEACHING LARGE CLASSES

 It's difficult to keep good discipline going in a large class

 You have to provide for students of different

abilities, wanting to learn different things at

different speeds and in different ways

 You can't easily give each student the individual

attention they need

 You may not have enough teaching and learning

aids

TEACHING LARGE CLASSES

Advantages

interesting life experiences

group work This brings variety and speeds

up the work

How can you use group work to help learning in a large class?

Organise the groups to suit Ss's abilities

• mixed-ability groups

• same-ability groups

• using group leaders/monitors

Monitor the groups yourself

TEACHING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS IN

Why they don’t use English?

 Peer pressure

 Lack of motivation

 Lack of support

How can we get students

talking?

 Explain why it's important

 Confidence tricks : involving rewarding them for

using 'easy language' - making them believe the

goal is easy to achieve

 Attainable goals: the lower the level of the group,

the less English you can expect them to produce

TEACHING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS IN

ENGLISH 10 TEACHING NOTES

ROLE PLAY

Tips on Successful Classroom

Role Play

 Prepare for success

 The role of the teacher

• Facilitator

• Spectator

• Participant

 Bring situations to life

 Keep it real and relevant

VISUALISATION/ PERSONALISATION

TEACHING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS IN

ENGLISH 10 FINAL WORDS

How we can promote an increase in student interaction?

 Pre-teaching task language

 Providing support

 Giving preparation time

 Providing a supportive atmosphere

 Varying the interaction and repeating tasks

 Having different levels of task

 Providing a reason to interact

TEACHING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS IN

ENGLISH 10 DO-IT-YOURSELF

The materials used for the training have

been adapted from Resources for English