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		<title>Some more speaking activities</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/03/31/some-more-speaking-activities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you teach speaking with few or no materials? Here are some speaking activities that you can try with your classes. 
Picture Dictation
materials: Ls notebooks or scrap paper and pictures to be dictated.
Aims: fluency, prepositions of place, vocabulary, process language.
Level: Pre-int upwards
Procedure: Ls draw 2 square boxes, you tell them to draw a ‘photo&#8217; of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some speaking activities</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/03/31/speaking-activities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some more activities, some of which you can use with little or no prepararion. These are activities that I have found by dredging my computer directories. I there fore do not know the sources fo these activities. I would be happy to give any credit where it is due.
Lying: an icebreaker
air off students. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oral communication tasks</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/03/07/oral-communication-tasks/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/03/07/oral-communication-tasks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
Asking 				for information to solve problems or complete a job-related task.
Making 				requests and observing conventions of politeness.
Sustaining 				short conversations using informal register[s].
Managing the various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is meant by automaticity and automatization?</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/29/what-is-meant-by-automaticity-and-automatization/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/29/what-is-meant-by-automaticity-and-automatization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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]

In some literature, the word automization is used rather 			than automatization.
For our purposes as teachers, automatization is the process of making language processing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activity: vocabulary tennis</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/29/activity-vocabulary-tennis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[word lists]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[game]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[group cohesion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lexis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[list]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an activity that requires no setting up and can be done at the drop of a hat just the kind of activity that I love to have in my toolbox! Essentially, the idea is to promote automatization through quick responses, under moderately stressful conditions.
Aim: learners will recycle vocabulary and/or create short sentences under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking activity outcomes - a rough guide</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/25/speaking-activity-outcomes-a-rough-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/25/speaking-activity-outcomes-a-rough-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking sub-skills</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/16/speaking-sub-skills/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/16/speaking-sub-skills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[   	
 	 	
To complement the posts on speaking, especially regarding curriculum design, I have included a list of speaking sub-skills. 
1.	Producing segmental features of English at word level [especially vowel and consonant sounds, stressed and unstressed syllables]
2.	Using suprasegmental features of English [especially intonation, stress in sentences, word-linking and weak forms] accurately in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching speaking: fluency or accuracy?</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/16/teaching-speaking-fluency-or-accuracy/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/16/teaching-speaking-fluency-or-accuracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post the classroom ideas are marked with a:
Whatever type of approach you intend to use for a particular activity in the classroom, making the differentiation between fluency and accuracy is a very important one.
However, here are some things to think about. From Brumfit…

Just because we are talking about 	fluency, it does not mean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The characteristics of spoken language</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/16/the-characteristics-of-spoken-language/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/16/the-characteristics-of-spoken-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some courses fail the learners in that they fail to distinguish between spoken and written language. The litmus test for this assertion is to ask whether the syllabus/curriculum treats spoken language as something distinct from written language with its own grammar, syntax and lexicon. If productive skills work is a vehicle for the teaching of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sequence game</title>
		<link>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/13/the-sequence-game/</link>
		<comments>http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/2008/02/13/the-sequence-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t show their [...]]]></description>
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