A SYLLABUS FOR SPEAKING SKILLS.

PART 2
Kateryna Protsenko International House Kyiv

HOW MANY TYPES OF SPEECH EVENTS CAN YOU THINK OF IN ONE MINUTE?
Applying for a job Talking to the supervisor Asking for directions Ordering food in a restaurant Buying electrical appliances Giving a lecture Discussing issues at work with a colleague Asking a friend to a party Arguing with a date Talking to a friend

SPEAKING SKILLS
Interactional Speaking

Transactional Speaking

Turn-taking Hedging Ellipsis Buying time Adjacency Openings and closings Topic sensitivity Stress and intonation Backchannel devices Chunks

Narration

ACCURACY VS. FLUENCY

Thornbury notes that speaking activities are often simply ways of rehearsing pre-selected grammar items or functional expressions (2005:28). Lewis claims that successful language is a wider concept than accurate language (2002:vi).

HOW TO DEVELOP INTERACTIONAL FLUENCY?

1. I lost my favorite pen yesterday. 2. I went to the cinema with my best friend on Monday. 3. I was late for work on Wednesday. 4. I bought a new dress.

HOW TO DEVELOP INTERACTIONAL FLUENCY?

A: When did you go to the cinema? B: I went to the cinema on Sunday evening. A: Who did you go with? B: I went with Jane. A: What did you see? B: We saw Shrek 3.

HOW TO DEVELOP INTERACTIONAL FLUENCY?

AWARENESS

APPROPRIATION

AUTONOMY

AWARENESS

Exploit listening tasks to raise awareness of interactional speaking skills

APPROPRIATION
Phrase of the day The teacher puts a target phrase on the board and draws students attention to it. The task for students is to use the phrase in the appropriate context as many times during the lesson as it is possible.

AUTONOMY
Pre-text discussions The teacher puts a set of pre-text discussion questions on the board Warm-up conversation The teacher asks students some general personalized questions, e.g. So, how did you spend your weekend? or What are you going to do during the weekend?

SUMMARY
Balance fluency and accuracy, pay more attention to fluency. Exploit listening tasks to raise awareness of interactional speaking skills Encourage students to control the skill in practice e.g. phrase of the day Praise autonomy!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

If you have any questions, mailto: Marina.Gayduchenko@ih.kiev.ua Kateryna.Protsenko@ih.kiev.ua