Speaking Comprehension skills

Speaking Skills

Speaking reflects how well-versed a speaker is. It is an important skill to impart in a student’s early formative years therefore an in-depth knowledge of speaking or oral skills is necessary.

The written word is nothing but a symbol of the spoken word. For cultivating a good speech the necessary attention on pronunciation is necessary. A teacher should create an environment in the class where he keeps on asking questions frequently giving an impression to the students that they have to speak and also giving them a space to open up without hesitation. The teacher should inculcate “fear-free environment” where neither he nor students peer judge or make fun of the students.

It is an important lesson to teach students to speak incorrectly. In a space where English is the second language, the focus should be on speaking and when the student will start speaking there are chances that he will speak it correctly but nonetheless, it is the duty of the teacher to make students speak in the class by imparting various other methods.

1. 1)      Asking and Answering Question: It is important to ask students question and if the student is not able to answer in that case the teacher can give him the answer and student later by repetition method would be able to speak.

 

1. 2)      Imitation and Repetition: It’s an important elementary step in developing skills in English. Imitation helps the student to pronounce the word correctly. In imitating sounds students are training its vocal cord to speak complex words that are foreign to its user.

 

1. 3)      Substitution: It is an elementary method where students are taught to substitute the words. For e.g. “This is a ball” is substituted with the words like This is Pen/mat/cat/rat/apple/bed/shed etc. when substitution is made, a number of new sentences are produced with ease by students. The above example is of single substitution there can be multiple substitution words in a phrase for e.g., This is a Pencil can be substituted with this is a long pencil.

 

1. 4)      Day to Day Expressions: Expressions of greeting, gratitude, small talk, introductions and making acquaintance, leave-taking, appreciation are very important communication acts which students should be aware of.

 

1. 5)      Eliciting: You can elicit sentences and phrases which give the description of what is depicted in the pictures. Ask simple and common questions when you show the pictures to the students. For example show a picture to the student and ask him to describe what the student sees in the picture.

 

1. 6)      Show and tell: In this activity, students are encouraged to bring their favorite object and speak about it for a minute or more.

 

1. 7)      Role Play: It is the liveliest form of involvement where students participate actively. A pretended situation is created where students are asked to pretend and speak dialogues accordingly. Roles from TV programs, cartoons are effective as students can best relate and would be able to speak more. Roleplay helps in improving the motivation of the students.

 

1. 8)      Rhymes Reading: One rhyme should be practiced daily with proper stress and intonation. Through these rhymes, the child loves to give audible expressions to its activity in its games and to teach them the rhythm of language.

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