Strategies for Oral Expression

In this session the group continued with the presentation groups about the listening comprehension and oral expression topic.

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Teaching Speaking

Earlier views: Methodology consisted of repeating after the teacher, memorizing a dialog, or responding to drills, reflecting the sentence-based view of proficiency (audiolingual and drill-based views of the 70’) Grammar-based syllabuses

Later views: In the 80’ emerged the communicative language teaching, until today.

Current views: Communicative approach+  intercultural competence. 

Talk as interactions: It refers to “conversation” and describes interaction which serves a social function.

When people meet, exchange greetings, engage in small talk, recount recent experiences.

Skills involved: opening and closing conversations, choosing topics, making small-talk, joking, reacting to others, turn taking, using styles of speaking.

The best way is to provide examples embedded in naturalistic dialogs that can serve to model features how to open and close conversations, making small talks, recounting personal incidents and experiences, and reacting to what others say. Teachers should select safe topics.

Giving feedback (back channeling) involves responding to a conversational partner with expressions that indicate interest and a wish for the speaker to continue. For example: yeah, that’s interesting, really, etc.

Asking one or two follow up questions could help prepare students to interact.