What type of speaking practice?
1. Choral drill – “repeat after me”
2. Pair work and group work; Practice a dialogue/Interview/Opinion exchange/
Problem solving/Role play/Discussion/Debate/Information gap/
Jigsaw activity/Game/Project/Presentation
Why hesitating?
1. Confucianism: Classified society/Teacher is a higher person in the classroom. Students tend to follow teacher’s explanation and become lesser-talker. Obey the authority of the teacher. They don’t have to think.
2. Test-dominated background: Speaking is not much worth to get a better score in CSAT. High school students only study what is related to CSAT, reading and listening. Speaking practice is meaningless to students.
3. Students are in fear of speaking. They always think their speaking should be perfect. Although their proficiency is ‘intermediate’ or ‘Beginner’, which level is emphasized on fluency rather than accuracy, they are suppressed to be accurate too much.
How can we develop speaking in our class?
1. Speaking practice should be started when students start to study English in 3rd grade of elementary school. Speaking ability has to come first. We need to eliminate their fear of speaking in English. Teacher has to notice them error is acceptable except when the truth value is in danger. For example, teacher would correct students’ error when they are confused in the meaning differences between ‘be used to –ing’ and ‘be used to R.V’. Second reason for starting speaking practice as early as possible is to make speaking as a habit to students. They won’t be weird about speaking in English as they grow up if they speak English in the first time of their school days. They will feel comfortable and speaking will become a very natural activity that happens in the classroom.
2. Of course, teaching speaking, teachers have to teach ‘right’ pronunciations and intonations of words.-However, it doesn’t mean that teacher must teach American-style pronunciation only. If the pronunciation can be widely accepted by everyone, it is meaningful to teach.- In this case, multimedia will be very useful aid to teach pronunciation or intonations. Recorded dialogue and TTS are examples of multimedia aid.
3. In addition, multimedia and computer is a very good ‘ocean’ to get resources that can be capitalized in speaking teaching. Teacher may find some topics from the internet to conduct the discussion activity in the class. Hence, teacher can gather some useful materials from the internet.
4. Other things from classroom: Role play, Competition, Interesting topics to students, Some good websites and software.
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