Categories: All - participation - feedback - pronunciation - strategies

by Alejandro Apodaca 5 years ago

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TEACHING SPEAKING

Teaching language in a classroom involves understanding when to use the students' first language to aid learning and identifying the key moments for correction. Designing activities should be centered on making students produce language that aligns with their needs, based on their experiences and knowledge.

TEACHING
SPEAKING

CORRECT DECISIONS

WHAT TO CORRECT

When students make more than one mistake

WHEN TO CORRECT

DEAL WITH IT

MISTAKE CORRECTIONS

Let them know that making mistakes is part of language adquisition
Punctualice L1 interference (Interlanguage)

SUPORTIVE FEEDBACK

IRF
It is not a direct correction, so it force the students to think more carefully what are they saying
It is not only corrective, it highlight what student have done good

REPETITION

Activities which make them repeat specific things

Making recordings
Speaking Sequences
Storytelling
Simulation and Role-Play
Questionnaires
Descriptions
Communication games
Acting from Scripts

STUDENTS AND SPEAKING

SPOKEN LANGUAGE

ADJENCY PAIRS

LEXICAL PHRASES

SPOKEN GRAMMAR

THE ROLES OF LANGUAGES

Identify when L1 has to be used on the classroom

We are teaching humans that could have problems at moment of learning, and we must be aware of it.

GOOD PRONUNCIATION

STRESS

Providing different meanings based on stressing sentences

INTONATION

Accents

RYTHM

The strees of the speech

SOUNDS

Phonetical aspects

DESIGN OF ACTIVITIES

It must be focused on make students produce language based on their needs

TASK
GOAL-ORIENTED; Archivable by peers interaction
TOPIC
Focused on make students produce based on their experience and knowledge

TEACHING SPEAKING

PROBLEMS

RELUCTANT STUDENTS
Strategies to deal whit them

Adopting apropiate teacher roles

Mandatory participation

Preparation

Pair work and group work

Matching level and task

Making them feel relaxed

L1 usage
Low participation
Find things to say
Shyness and inhibition
Fears

Social anxiety

Criticism

Making mistakes

GOALS

The usage of language on an acceptable level
Make students talk