UNIT 8 REFLECTIVE BLOG

SPEAKING

    In this unit I learned that speaking concentrate a variety of activities and tasks that give learners opportunities to practice and expand their use of language and vocabulary in the classroom. Also I can say that speaking is a productive skills that use the language as a tool for communication.

    To this, I consider that speaking needs to use a group of main words that  this process involves , such as pronounce words, answer question, use of intonation, ask for clarification, appropriate register, use grammar and vocabulary, paraphrase and hesitate. So, those words require be explained in the class, because they will construct a familiar relation at the moment of start to speak and for   they getting oral fluency when they transmit meaning during the speech in an accurately form. Also, Controlled practice activities, will help students to make up a large of speaking practice, this contain drills, repetition and saying things learn by heart.

    To sum up, in classroom, is necessary to create activities where teacher can ask them to reproduce a dialogue, and give them a model script and vocabulary list which they may use, also newspapers contains write-ups that are based on the reality that give the opportunities to read, use the language in a real content and share ideas with their classmates, those of activities increase the opportunity for interaction to establish a solid language comprehension.

 Resources:

• Electronic Book  Doi :  Qureshi, I. (  The Importance of  Speaking skills for EFL learners) The electronic Journal fro English as a second language , 6-10, [Adobe Digital editions version]. Retrieved from :  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Speaking_Skills.pdf

• Johnson Keith. ( June, 1997) (Communicative approaches and communicative processes, Psycholinguistics and Language Teaching .  Language Teaching and Skill Learning , doi: Volume 2, # 4. Retrieved from: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume2/ej08/ej08r9/?wscr=