SUMMARY ON CHAPTER ONE
In this chapter, we have done an overview of the current innovative trends in the educational system of Uzbekistan. After the enactment of the laws on the development and further improvement of teaching and learning foreign language in the country, new tendencies are appeared in the educational system of Uzbekistan. They include student-centered approach which aims learner autonomy as a priority of the teaching and learning environment; competence-based language teaching which uses the language to complete the authentic and real world tasks efficaciously; and Common European Framework of Reference which is on the target to set standard objectives and content for the teaching and learning language procedure. All the trends above are aimed at enhancing and consolidating communicative competencies in FLT classroom.
Speaking in the English language has been considered the most challenging of the four skills given the fact that it involves a complex process of constructing meaning. This process requires speakers to make decisions about why, how and when to communicate depending on the cultural and social context in which the speaking act occurs. Additionally, it involves a dynamic interrelation between speakers and hearers that results in their simultaneous interaction of producing and processing spoken discourse under time constraints. Given all these defining aspects of the complex and intricate nature of spoken discourse, increasing research conducted over the last few decades has recognized speaking as an interactive, social and contextualized communicative event. Therefore, the key role of the speaking skill in developing learners’ communicative competence has also become evident, since this skill requires learners to be in possession of knowledge about how to produce not only linguistically correct but also pragmatically appropriate utterances. Drawing on these considerations, this subtheme first outlines the advances that have been made in learning the skill of speaking over the last decades. It then considers how this knowledge becomes the basis for teaching speaking from a communicative perspective. Finally, it presents the importance of integrating this skill within a communicative competence framework so that learners can acquire their English language communicative competence through speaking. It should be noted that in any kind of teaching and learning atmosphere, the students’ learning styles should be taken into consideration while preparing and selecting the goal and objectives, content and materials of the course. It is very significant to be aware of the ways how our students learn the materials in order to adapt different strategies and techniques to the material which is not appropriate to the preferred style, and to achieve what is intended to be achieved.
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