Lecture 15
Theme:
Teaching Speaking in English
Problems for Discussion
1.
General Remarks
2. The Most Difficulties of Teaching Speaking a Foreign Language
3.
The Content of Teaching Speaking in English
4.
Techniques for Teaching Speaking
1. The knowledge of each of the aspect of the language is of great
importance to learners. However, when we say a person knows the
language we first of all mean he understands the language spoken and can
speak it himself.
Speaking in English is also one of the language skills. By speaking
information is given. Language came into
life as a means of
communication. It exists and is alive only through speech. When we
speak about teaching a foreign language, we first of all have in mind
teaching it as a means of communication. Speech is a bilateral process. It
includes hearing, on the one hand, and speaking, on the other. When we
say “hearing” we mean auditing or listening and comprehension.
Speaking exists in two forms: dialogue and monologue.
Speaking is
closely interacted with other language skills. If the pupil acquires
listening and understanding (Comprehension) skills well his speaking
abilities also develops in a quick tempo.
Reading is also interrelated with speaking. The pupil gives
information, can speak according to the material he reads. reading is the
material base for speaking. The language learner (pupil) can express
(write) the information in written form through reading, speaking, and
listening.
The secondary school syllabus requirement
is to carry on a
conversation and to speak a foreign language within the topics and
linguistic material. Thus, speaking is the practical aim in teaching oral
language. Finally, it is use for developing pronunciation habits and skills
and, therefore, for reading and writing since they are closely connected
with pupils’ ability to pronounce correctly what they read and write. Thus
speaking is the most important part of the work during the lesson.
Consequently oral language is:
•
an aim when pupils make use of the target language as a means of
communication, i.e. the target language is used for:
(1)
Teacher-pupils communication in the classroom;
(2)
pupils’ communication when talking on a topic under Teacher’s
supervision;
(3)
pupils’ communication when working
at a text-discussing the
problems touched in it;
(4)
pupils’ communication during out-of-class activities in the target
language;
•
a means of teaching and learning a foreign language when it is used:
(1)
within the methods of acquisition of new information about a
linguistic or language phenomenon and drill and transformation to
form pronunciation, lexical, grammar, etc. habits in pupils;
(2)
for checking pupils’ comprehension.
2. Speaking a foreign language is the most difficult part in language
learning because pupils need ample practice in
speaking to be able to say
a few words of their own in connection with a situation. This work is
time-consuming and pupils rarely feel any real necessity to make
themselves understood during the whole period of learning a new
language in school. The stimuli the teacher can use are often feeble and
artificial. The pupil respects the sentence he hears, he completes
sentences that are in the book he constructs sentences on the patterns of a
given one. These
mechanical drill exercises are, of course, necessary;
however, when they go on year after year without any other real language
practise they are deadening. There must be occasions when the pupils feel
the necessity to inform someone of something, to explain something and
to prove something to someone. This is a
psychological factor which
must be taken into account when teaching pupils to speak a foreign
language.
Difficulties of Teaching Speaking a foreign language may be
divided into 2 groups:
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