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Here is a suggested taxonomy for oral communication task types, not in any order of importance.

  • Providing extended answers to oral questions.
  • Asking and answering questions about diagrams or other visual representations of information.

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automatic

  • largely or wholly involuntary, especially as with a reflex
  • acting or done spontaneously or unconsciously

automatize

  • to make automatic [noun derivations: automatization the process of making automatic; automaticity the state or condition of being automatic]

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1. Deducing meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items through understanding word formation and contextual clues in utterances and spoken text

2. Recognising and understanding phonological features of speech [especially those forms associated with supra-segmental features] Read the rest of this entry »

  • Listening to types of speech in different authentic contexts
  • Listening to everyday speech and interactions
  • Listening to and identifying single or multiple speakers
  • Listening to both planned and unplanned speech

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This milling activity is very simple. Each student has a different sequential series written on a strip of paper. Their task is to find the participant wıith the exactly the same sequence as them self. For this to be a speaking and listening task, monitor the learners carefully to ensure they don’t show their sequences to people. Read the rest of this entry »