- Developing ability to describe objects and processes
- Responding to various forms of questions and sustained questioning in appropriate contexts
- Interacting in real world speaking activities
- Performing one way and two-way information tasks
- Raising awareness of conversational structure [opening, turn-taking, sustaining a turn, negotiating meaning, nominating a topic, repairing a mistake, linking ideas, adjusting the message by rephrasing, or using circumlocutions, changing topics, & closing a conversation]
- Encouraging fluency and then accuracy
- Practising speaking routines and making meaning clear
- Becoming conscious of the listener’s demands [understanding listener's problems with comprehension, disagreement & interruptions] and responding appropriately
- Relaying instructions
- Giving individual and group presentations [including use of charts, diagrams, outlines]
- Paraphrasing other speakers and self
- Participating in interviews
- Participating in interactive simulations and role plays [creating dialogues]
- Using formulaic language and language chunking in spoken texts [focussing on form]
- Oral drilling as a production activity [in the post-task phase] using prompts
- Collaborative speaking [reaching a consensus, & shared explaining]
- Giving attention to problems of pronunciation and intelligibility
- Speaking on the telephone and the radio
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October 6, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Bryan Castro
Thank you for this useful information… I’m a ELT student in Colombia and This information is absolutely useful for my Graduation Project