Theme: The role of educational technologies in progressing oral speech of pupils at vocational colleges. Content: Introduction Main body

2. The ways of developing communicative discourse of learners
"The development of infants’ oral language begins as caregivers socially interact with them "---------7 Oral language includes speaking and listening. Young children learn about their world as they communicate with others. Oral language skills are an important predictor of later language and literacy development------------ 8
Children begin to develop language as they babble and coo. Soon they are repeating sounds and then they speak their first word.
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One-word utterences lead to multiple words, followed by more complex sentences. Oral language is a process that is developed by using spoken language.
" Language greatly increases during the preschool years. Starting at the age of 3 years old, children should be learning at least 2,500 new words each year" . Therefore, they need to be exposed to new words everyday.
Oral language is used for many purposes. Children use language as they engage in social exchanges and playful encounters. Language is used to make requests, share information, and ask and answer questions. Thus, children’s comprehension of language increases during daily interactions.
"Communicative competence is a concept set forth by Dell Hymes (1966). The idea behind his concept was that (English) language is not to be learned within a vacuum" 10------- xx
In other words, language is used for communication, and as such, it must follow conventions.He divided those conventions into competencies.And they cover a broad range of communication competence elements: grammatical (or linguistic) competence, discourse competence, strategic competence, and sociolinguistic competence.
Communication is key in the classroom: successful teaching is generally considered to require only 50% knowledge to 50% communication skills. As a result, a teacher should be proficient in all four modes of communication – listening, speaking, reading, and writing – and should know how to utilise this proficiency effectively in a school environment. Being able to do this has been proven to impact the success students achieve in their academic lives, as well as the teacher’s own career success.