UNIT 8 - SPEAKING

UNIT 8 – SPEAKING

Speaking is how people communicate with others to achieve certain goals such as expressing their opinions, intentions, and points of view, according to Torky (2016). “The TKT Course Modules 1, 2 and 3” (2011, p. 48), explains that speaking implies using speech to communicate meanings to others. Speaking involves producing a language and it is a productive skill.

Speaking has skills that are fluency, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, but speaking also has subskills that help people to communicate with each other. The speaking’s subskills are making use of grammar, vocabulary, and functions, making use of register, using connected speech, using body language, producing different text types, among others. Also, speaking has interactive strategies that are body language, functions, and turn-taking. Patel (2014), body language is a method of communication-based on body movements or gestures. This is also called nonverbal communication. Functions are the reason why people communicate. Turn-taking is the ability to understand when a conversation begins and ends. It is a tool that helps the organization in a spoken speech. Furthermore, speaking has text types and some examples are telling stories, telephone conversations, debates, among others.

As a conclusion, I realized that speaking is divided into skills and subskills. The skills help people to have effective fluency, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary when people have a conversation. Subskills provides people to improve their speaking skills. Speaking has interactive strategies that are body language, functions and turn-taking which are important to have proper communication with others.

Teachers know that speaking is a very necessary skill because it is the base of communication, for that reason, there are some activities to develop speaking activities here.

-          The teacher gives each student 4 words on a specific topic. The teacher asks the students to make a little story using those words. Then, each student reads their story aloud and the best story wins a point.

-          The teacher asks the students to bring a picture of the person they admire. Then, the teacher tells the students that they describe the person they admire and why they admire that person. Students must use a grammar structure that they have been learning at that level.

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References

Patel, D. S. (2014). Body Language: An Effective. Retrieved from https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56fb450bf8baf30bc33df806/t/58d1d7d7440243e31b9513e8/1490147288845/Body+Language-+An+Effective+Communication+Tool.pdf

Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The TKT Course Modules 1, 2 and 3. Cambirdge: Cambridge University Press.

Torky, S. (2016). The Effectiveness of a Task- Based Instruction program in Developing the English Language Speaking Skills. Retrieved from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED523922.pdf