Teaching Speaking

"Drawing on wide-ranging literature from a variety of relevant disciplines, as well as their own extensive experience in teaching spoken English, the authors give a fascinating, comprehensive, and insightful account of the nature of second language speaking skills. The research and theory they survey then serves as the basis for the principles, strategies, and procedures they propose for the teaching of spoken English. This book will, therefore, provide an invaluable resource for teachers, teachers in training, and researchers, providing both a state-of-the-art survey of the field as well as a source of practical ideas for those involved in planning, teaching, and evaluating courses and materials for the teaching of spoken English"--

*What elements make a speaking activity successful? *Which tasks or activities really help build speaking fluency? *What does the research show regarding speaking activities? *What mistakes do ESL teachers often make in speaking activity design? In this highly accessible and practical resource, Keith S. Folse provides a wealth of information to help ESL/EFL teachers design and use speaking tasks that will actually improve students' speaking fluency. The book presents and discusses the relevant research and assessment issues and includes case studies from twenty different settings and classrooms around the world so that readers learn from others about the problems and successes of using various speaking activities. Teachers will find the chapters on Twenty Successful Activities and Ten Unsuccessful Activities particularly valuable. The successful activities are provided for classroom use and are reproducible. The book also contains five appendixes that explain what teachers need to know about vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar and how they affect the teaching of speaking. Samples of successful lesson plans and a list of resources useful for teaching speaking are also included. Keith S. Folse, Ph.D., is Coordinator, TESOL Programs, University of Central Florida (Orlando). He is the author of Vocabulary Myths (University of Michigan Press, 2004) and more than 35 second language textbooks, including texts on grammar, reading, speaking, listening, and writing.

Whether you are teaching a speaking course online for the first time or transitioning to a face-to-face course to online, Teaching Speaking Online outlines ways to foster spoken language development in online teaching contexts. Because technical problems, economic resources, and student schedules may curtail opportunities for student participation in live, synchronous online classes, this book focuses primarily on asynchronous modes of teaching and learning. Each section emphasizes practical strategies and resources to promote spoken communication: fluency, accuracy, and context-sensitive usage. It outlines proven strategies and ends with reflection questions to invite readers to adopt the best strategies for their teaching.

This book offers a systematic yet flexible programme for teaching spoken language one step at a time. It targets the essential spoken language skills crucial for every child's educational development - Conversation; Listening; Narrative; Discussion -and provides auditing tools, checklists and guidance to help the non-specialist teacher to build language, literacy and communication skills. This highly-accessible book, complete with online resources, supports differentiated teaching by providing simple methods for monitoring individual development and reviewing progress. The book includes practical, realistic teaching objectives and classroom procedures, advice on teaching methods and suggestions for activities. This resource is specially designed to combine with other teaching programmes, making spoken language teaching manageable within existing resources - without specialist training. There are downloadable tools and links online, including a training pack to ensure that the whole school benefits from this tried-and-tested model. Teachers, teaching assistants, literacy coordinators and SENCOs working in the early years and primary, and anyone working with children of any age with spoken language difficulties will find this resource invaluable.

Many teachers have made efforts to make their class interesting by using various methods, techniques, instruments and materials in order to stimulate the students to learn English. In oral English class for example, the students are served with conductive learning activity so they can speak English as well as possible. The first thing a teacher should do is to create the best condition for learning as an instrument to see the learning take place. The teacher is responsible to create a situation that provides opportunities and stimulate the students to communicate English orally. So that, it can develop the students’ self-confidence to be brave in speaking that can improve their speaking skill. This book elaborate how YM can be used as a tool ar medium to improve students’ speaking skill are the program is easy to use and familiar for the students, they already registered at Yahoo email, and they can practice their language skill to chat orally with native or non native speakers of English over the world through all YM facilities.

This best-selling introductory text updates teachers on national developments and best practice in speaking and listening in the classroom.

How do learners learn to speak a foreign language? What different approaches have been developed to teach this important skill? Speaking deals with both these questions, providing clear explanations of recent research and developments in methodology. In the final section the author suggests practical ways in which teachers can gain a better understanding of the role of oral classroom activities.

With the Common Core State Standards emphasizing listening and speaking across the curriculum, these long-neglected language arts are regaining a place in schools. For teachers, this means reexamining practices and rethinking expectations. How much do we know about teaching listening and speaking as the complex communication skills they are? How do we teach students to discuss appropriately, integrate and understand the mountains of information they receive, and express themselves clearly and effectively? In this lively and practical book, 20-year teaching veteran Erik Palmer presents an approach aligned to the six Common Core anchor standards for speaking and listening but focused on preparing students for 21st century communication inside and beyond the classroom. Here, you'll get concrete guidance for teaching and assessing * Collaborative discussion * Listening and media literacy * Questioning and reasoning * Speech presentation * Effective multimedia use * Adapting speech to different content and tasks With due respect to reading and writing, we do most of our communicating—in the classroom and in life—through listening and speaking. Filled with examples and specific activities targeted to variety of subjects and grade levels, this book is an essential resource for all teachers interested in helping students acquire core skills that cross the content areas and support long-term success.