Unit 8 SPEAKING

Speaking

Unit 8 from TKT book is about speaking. Speaking is an ability developed by a group of people. Its purpose is communication among the members of any society because it is a productive skill, especially for students because they need to practice it with the objective of make a foundation to communicate with foreigners. Even in speaking there are features such as pronunciation, accuracy, fluency, grammar, vocabulary, and comprehension that students have to be able to use in an intelligible way. We must define speaking as an interactive process where people construct meaning, receive and process information. I believe that the goal of speaking is to communicate well in English. So, competent teachers must not think on use traditional methods where they give the material and explain it, then give examples and give exercise about it. The general idea is not to spend a lot of time in textual material, but motivate them to learn English specially speaking.

Bibliography:

Spratt, M. Pulverness, A. Williams, M. (2012). Language and background to language learning and teaching. The TKT Course. (2^nd ed.) Cambridge University Press

Gower, R. Phillips, D. Walters, S. (2010). Teaching Practice. A handbook for teachers in training.
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