วันพุธที่ 16 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2557

Learning Log: Inside the classroom, 3nd (15 July 2014)

          Reflection what I have learned from my friends has presentation about teaching speaking on 17 Tuesday July 2014. In our daily lives most of us speak more than we write, yet many English teachers still spend the majority of class time on reading and writing practice almost ignoring speaking and listening skills. Speaking is one of important skill in the four skills. The mastery of speaking skills in English is a priority for many second-language or foreign-language learners.
They talk about speaking. First, speaking happens in real time. Second, when you speak, you cannot edit and revise what you wish to say, as you can if you writing. The best of teaching speaking should be 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. On the other hand, if the right activities are taught in the right way, speaking in class can be a lot of fun, raising general learner motivation and making the English language classroom a fun.
To create classroom speaking activities that will develop communicative competence, instructors need to incorporate a purpose and activities and allow for multiple forms of expression. The interesting activities to promote speaking such as information gaps are also commonly used for speaking practice, as are surveys, discussions, and role-plays, Storytelling fosters creative thinking. It also helps students express ideas in the format of beginning, development, and ending, including the characters and setting a story has to have. Students also can tell riddles or jokes, Picture Describing is another way to make use of pictures in a speaking activity is to give students just one picture and having them describe what it is in the picture. For this activity students can form groups and each group is given a different picture. Students discuss the picture with their groups, and then a spokesperson for each group describes the picture to the whole class. This activity fosters the creativity and imagination of the learners as well as their public speaking skills, and so on.
          Conclusion, teaching speaking is a very important part of second language learning. The ability to communicate in a second language clearly and efficiently contributes to the success of the learner in school and success later in every phase of life. Therefore, it is essential that language teachers pay great attention to teaching speaking. Rather than leading students to pure memorization, providing a rich environment where meaningful communication takes place is desired. With this aim, various speaking activities such as those listed above can contribute a great deal to students in developing basic interactive skills necessary for life. These activities make students more active in the learning process and at the same time make their learning more meaningful and fun for them.

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