PART 2
Kateryna Protsenko International House Kyiv
HOW MANY TYPES OF SPEECH EVENTS CAN YOU THINK OF IN ONE MINUTE?
Applying for a job Talking to the supervisor Asking for directions Ordering food in a restaurant Buying electrical appliances Giving a lecture Discussing issues at work with a colleague Asking a friend to a party Arguing with a date Talking to a friend
SPEAKING SKILLS
Interactional Speaking
Transactional Speaking
Turn-taking Hedging Ellipsis Buying time Adjacency Openings and closings Topic sensitivity Stress and intonation Backchannel devices Chunks
Narration
Thornbury notes that speaking activities are often simply ways of rehearsing pre-selected grammar items or functional expressions (2005:28). Lewis claims that successful language is a wider concept than accurate language (2002:vi).
A: When did you go to the cinema? B: I went to the cinema on Sunday evening. A: Who did you go with? B: I went with Jane. A: What did you see? B: We saw Shrek 3.
AWARENESS
APPROPRIATION
AUTONOMY
AWARENESS
APPROPRIATION
Phrase of the day The teacher puts a target phrase on the board and draws students attention to it. The task for students is to use the phrase in the appropriate context as many times during the lesson as it is possible.
AUTONOMY
Pre-text discussions The teacher puts a set of pre-text discussion questions on the board Warm-up conversation The teacher asks students some general personalized questions, e.g. So, how did you spend your weekend? or What are you going to do during the weekend?
SUMMARY
Balance fluency and accuracy, pay more attention to fluency. Exploit listening tasks to raise awareness of interactional speaking skills Encourage students to control the skill in practice e.g. phrase of the day Praise autonomy!