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Promoting Speaking Activities f or the benefit of Adult Learners

Promoting Speaking Activities f or the benefit of Adult Learners. ‘Andırın Centre for Education of People ’. Why is ‘ speaking ’ important? What is ‘ Teaching Speaking ’ ? How to teach ‘ speaking ’? Activities to promote ‘s peaking ’ Practical application

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Promoting Speaking Activities f or the benefit of Adult Learners

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  1. Promoting Speaking Activitiesforthe benefit of Adult Learners ‘Andırın Centre for Education of People’

  2. Why is ‘speaking’ important? What is ‘Teaching Speaking’? How to teach ‘speaking’? Activities to promote ‘speaking’ Practical application Suggestions for teachers in teaching speaking Conclusion Presentation Outline

  3. Why is speaking important? Speaking is a crucial part of second language learning and teaching. Today's world requires that the goal of teaching speaking should improve students' communicative skills, because, only in that way, learners can express themselves and learn how to follow the social and cultural rules appropriate in each communicative circumstance.

  4. To use language as a means of expressing values and judgements and organize their thoughts in a meaningful and logical sequence. To produce the English speech sounds and sound patterns To use word and sentence stress, and intonation. To select appropriate words and sentences. To use the language quickly and confidently with few unnatural pauses, which is called as fluency.(Nunan, 2003) What is "Teaching Speaking"?

  5. How To Teach Speaking? • definetely, by "interacting". • -Communicative language teaching and collaborative learning serve best for this aim. • -Communicative language teaching should be based on real-life situations that require communication. By using this method in ESL classes, learners will have the opportunity of communicating with each other in the target language.

  6. Activities to promote Speaking Discussions Simulations Storytelling Reporting Playing Cards Role Play Information Gap Interviews Story Completion Picture Describing

  7. Suggestions for teaching Speaking: While teaching oral language teachers should; provide a rich environment that contains collaborative work, authentic materials and tasks try to involve each student in every speaking activity not correct students' pronunciation mistakes very often reduce their own speaking time while increasing student speaking time

  8. Practical Application:let’s play ‘spot the differences’ game • Divide into two groups, • Look at the pictures and try to find ten differences!

  9. Get a half of the picture, Do not show to others, Describe your picture and try to find the rest of yours! • Practical Application:let’s play ‘cocktail party’ game

  10. Rather than leading students to pure memorization, providing a rich environment where meaningful communication takes place is desired. Learners should be more active in the learning process by means of interactive activities. Conclusion Take Home Message: Speaking English is the main goal of many adult ESL learners.

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