TEACHING SPEAKING AN INTRODUCTION Why should we teach speaking skills in the classroom?  Motivation 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  Students won't talk or say anything  When students work in pairs or groups they just end up chatting in L1  When all the students speak together it gets 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  Arrange classroom desks differently  Teach classroom language on the very first lesson, keep on teaching and encourage students to ask questions or for things in English  Give positive feedback  Allocate a percentage to their final grade (on-going assessment)  Use communicative speaking activities to capture their interest and create a real need for communication  Speak in English yourself as much as possible in class When students work in pairs or groups they just end up chatting in L1  Is the activity or task pitched at the right level for the students?  Are all the students actively involved and is the activity interesting?  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  A classroom full of students talking and interacting in English, even if it is noisy is exactly what you want  Losing control of the classroom?: walking 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. [...]... ball 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... TEACHING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS IN ENGLISH 10 GETTING TEENAGERS TALKING 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. .. 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 BRINGING DIALOGUES ALIVE  Speedy dictation  Moving jigsaws/Piecing a dialogue together  Dialogue refills  Disappearing/ erasing dialogue  Completion  Substitution...  Providing a reason to interact TEACHING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS IN ENGLISH 10 DO-IT-YOURSELF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The materials used for the training have been adapted from Resources for English Teachers on www.teachingenglish.org.uk . Monitor the groups yourself TEACHING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS IN ENGLISH 10 GETTING TEENAGERS TALKING Why they don’t use English?  Peer pressure  Lack of. the level of the group, the less English you can expect them to produce. TEACHING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS IN ENGLISH 10 TEACHING NOTES BRINGING DIALOGUES