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Date Posted: 05:00:24 09/08/04 Wed
Author: Verônica
Subject: Re: Task 1
In reply to: Claudia 's message, "Re: Task 1" on 09:33:48 09/06/04 Mon

>TEACHING SPEAKING
>
>
>
>Speaking is one of the most important skills in an
>English course, or at least it should be, since, in
>general, students' primarily objective is to speak in
>order to communicate. This is so truth that English
>schools tend to insert the grammar into the
>communicative process that involves not only speaking,
>but three other skills such as: listening, writing and
>reading.
>
>As I said before , people start English classes with
>the main objective of learning to speak the language;
>the reasons vary from student to student. The funny
>thing is that when they get to class they have a
>strong resistance to speak and 'pay attention to
>one-thing guys: there is only one-way to speak a
>language and it's speaking it' the teachers keep
>saying this for all their professional lives.
>
>There are many ways to train students to speak a
>language and the options I can remember are:
>repetition and controlled and non-controlled speaking
>activities. Repetition is very good to work on
>pronunciation, controlled speaking is when the teacher
>gives a model for students to follow and so students
>learn how to do something new in a safe way, and non
>controlled is the time when students have the
>opportunity to produce, in a free way, what they have
>learned so far and still create whatever it's possible
>for them.
>
>Learning a foreign language isn't so simple subject.
>Not having the ability for such thing can make the
>process very painful and feelings of shame, mainly
>when we are talking about the speaking skill,
>interfere in a terrible way, making frustrated
>students give up the course in no time. But we all
>know that learning anything can be frustrating at
>times, but never impossible, and this is what we
>should always keep in mind.

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