Teaching Speaking in communicative appoach

WARMER :
- Odd one out -
Eg : a. fall in love c. get engaged
b. get married d. go to a party
1. a. wrote b. threw
c. kissed d. found
c. kissed
2. a. fax b. mobile phone
c. e-mail d. CD player
d. CD player
3. a. face b. eye
c. leg d. mouth
c. leg
4. a. G. Bush b. G. Brown
c. V. Putin d. Celine Dion
d. Celine Dion
TEACHING SPEAKING

REVISION
Nguyễn Ngọc Ân
Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm USS
Why should we teach speaking skill 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 skill 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
3 stages of teaching
speaking skill :
Group the following activities into 3 stages of teaching speaking skill :
eliciting/brainstorming, repetition, controlled roleplay, survey questionaires, information gaps, write-it-up, filling the forms, pre-teach vocab and new structures, ordering activities, questions and answers, discussion, free roleplay
Suggested answers :
Before speaking : eliciting/brainstorming, Qs and As, information gaps, discussion, pre-teach vocab and new structures
While speaking : repetition, controlled roleplay, filling the forms, ordering activities
After speaking : write-it-up, survey questionaires, free roleplay
Ordering the following instructions of the T’s activities in the speaking period (based on three stages – 11 NC- Unit 8 )
1
2
3
4
5
TEACHING ENGLISH
SPEAKING SKILLS
IN ENGLISH 11

GETTING STUDENTS TALKING
Why they don’t use English?
Peer pressure

Lack of motivation

Lack of support

Tips on Successful Classroom Role Play
Prepare for success
The role of the teacher
Facilitator
Spectator
Participant
Bring situations to life
Feed-in language
Error Correction
Self-correction
Peer-correction
Making a note of common mistakes yourself and dealing with them in future classes
Use your imagination and have fun
TEACHING LARGE CLASSES
Disadvantages
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
More students = more different ideas and interesting life experiences.

Ss can learn to share and help each other in 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 ENGLISH 11



FINAL WORDS
How we can promote an increase in student interaction?
Providing support
Pre-teaching task language
Giving preparation time
Providing a supportive atmosphere
Varying the interaction and repeating tasks
Having different levels of task
Providing a reason to interact
HAVE A LOT OF FUN
IN YOUR TEACHING !
THANK YOU !