TEACHING SPEAKING

By Aisyah Sunarwan

Phone. 081541222622

email. aisyahsunarwan@gmail.com

Teaching Speaking

Issues for discussion:1. Characteristics of spoken

language2. Principles for designing speaking

activities3. Using group work in speaking

activities4. Common types of speaking

activities

What are the characteristics of spoken language?

• Speaking is a skill, just like swimming, driving a car, or playing ping-pong.

• Too often, in the traditional classroom, the learning of English has been relegated to linguistic s knowledge only.

Characteristics of spoken language

Spontaneity• In most situations, people do not plan

ahead of time what they are going to say.• Spontaneous means full of false starts and

repetitions incomplete sentences.Time-constraint

The students produce unplanned utterances in real time

Designing speaking tasks

• One important consideration: Proficiency level of the students (challenging but not too difficult.)

• If the task is too easy or too difficult, the students may be demotivated.

Common characteristics in successful speaking tasks

• Maximum foreign talk

• Even participation

• High motivation

Using group work in speaking tasks

Advantages of using group work• More opportunities

• More motivation• More authenticity• Different levels• More cooperation

Type of speaking tasks

According to Littlewood, communicative speaking activities can be divided into two types: functional communication activities, and social interaction activities:

Structural ActivitiesPre-C.A. Quasi-com. Activities (sent. pattern drills, dialogues, etc.)

Functional Com. Act.Com. Act. (obtaining information)

Social Interaction Act. (role-playing, problem-solving, etc.)

Information Gap, Choices & Feed-back)

Some types of speaking activities

• Information-gap activities

• Dialogues and role-plays

• Activities using pictures

• Problem-solving activities

• Other speaking activities

Directions: Ask your partner what is in his/her picture.

Fore example:

Student A: What’s in your picture?

Student B: There is __________. What’s in your picture?

Student A: There is __________.

Conclusion

The most important aspect of preparing students to speak in real life is to give them as many opportunities as possible to practise producing unplanned, spontaneous and meaningful speech under time pressure.

That’s all

Thank you!